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Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems
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Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems |
Date: |
Tue, 9 May 2000 10:41:49 -0500 (CDT) |
> > Again, why? Are you thinking about directories, or regular files,
> > or both?
>
On Tue, 9 May 100, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> umask applies to both
Yes, I know; that's the problem.
What (still) I don't understand is why you think "With Unix permissions
set up as they are, that's got to be an error." So I speculated you might
have thought only about directories.
> actually it's an unusual condition (I don't recall many other applications
> that have to circumvent broken umask's).
I don't call it broken - it's just unexpected. A program that fails
in obscure ways when faced with unexpected input is broken.
Klaus
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- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems, T.E.Dickey, 2000/05/08
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems, T.E.Dickey, 2000/05/08
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems, T.E.Dickey, 2000/05/09
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems,
Klaus Weide <=
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems, T.E.Dickey, 2000/05/09
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems, T.E.Dickey, 2000/05/09
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems, Henry Nelson, 2000/05/09
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems, Henry Nelson, 2000/05/09