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Article #188900Re: Default filemode in GNU Emacs, how?
From: Carl Witty
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 17:53
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 17:53
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In <2141.9106110915@seq.hull.ac.uk> sm2@sequent.cc.hull.ac.uk (Simon Marshall) writes: < Klaus Harbo (harbo@rimfaxe.diku.dk) writes: <| When I create a file, its filemode is automatically set to 644. However, I <| would like it to default to 600 instead, but how? < Emacs creates a file via the usual Unix system calls, which use < the value of "umask" for the file's permission bits. To make it 600, < put "umask 600" in your ~/.cshrc or equivalent. To find out what it < is, just type "umask". No, the umask is the set of bits which are excluded from default file permissions; to make the default (for non-executables) 600, you need "umask 077". Carl Witty cwitty@cs.stanford.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,b8c1cc5a2de7d3ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-06-12 08:59:51 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!unidui!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!elaine11.Stanford.EDU!cwitty From: cwitty@cs.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: Default filemode in GNU Emacs, how? Message-ID: <cwitty.676662832@elaine11.Stanford.EDU> Date: 11 Jun 91 17:53:52 GMT References: <2141.9106110915@seq.hull.ac.uk> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 16