Re: [boost] bjam bug? Strange permission

Subject: Re: [boost] bjam bug? Strange permission
From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-02 13:33:37

Marshall Clow wrote:

> On Aug 2, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> AMDG
>> 
>> On 08/02/2012 07:47 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>>> While tracking down strange directory permissions, I noticed this:
>>> 
>>> find . -name .hg -prune -o -type d  \( \! -perm 755 -and \! -perm 775 \) -ls
>>> 17315044    4 drwxrw-r--   3 nbecker  nbecker      4096 Aug  2 08:41
>>> ./bin.v2
>>> 
>>> I assume that dir was created by bjam during the test build, for some reason
>>> with strange mode.
>>> 
>> 
>> The problem is
>> mkdir(path, 0766);
> 
> But Neal's getting 0764 - strange.
> 
> Neal - what's your umask?

Common setting on Redhat-ish linux (in my case, fedora):

umask
0002