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Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: Remove execute permission from xend-debug.log

To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: Remove execute permission from xend-debug.log
From: Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:45:24 -0400
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Aron Griffis wrote:  [Tue Apr 24 2007, 05:39:41PM EDT]
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:  [Tue Apr 24 2007, 03:22:11PM EDT]
> > The file /var/log/xen/xend-debug.log is currently being created with 
> > executable permission bits set. This is because the os.open() method
> > defaults to using a mode of 0777 if no third parameter is provided.
> > The attached patch changes the mode to 0600 to ensure that the file
> > permissions come out as -rw-------  instead of -rwxr-xr-x
> 
> Doesn't os.open default to 0777 & ~umask?  Doesn't seem like xend
> should be overriding root's umask

Seems that the patch should be using 0666 instead of 0600 so that
umask can affect group/other perms.  At the very least it should use
0664.

Aron

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