Re: [Help-smalltalk] Some changes to 2.2b

[J Pfersich]

At 08:13 AM 10/27/2006 +0900, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> J Pfersich wrote:
> > Here are a few changes for gst. Some are bug fixes, some are additions 
> > that I've been using. The fixes are in CharArray.st and VFS.st. The VFS 
> > bug is the createDir creation of the directory with permissions of 777. I 
> > think that world writable directories are a bad idea.
> Wrong, the OS should take into account the umask shouldn't it? 0x777 means 
> "all bits not set in the umask", not world writable.

Actually, I'm sure that it's the shell that sets the umask. On my machines 
(SUSE Linux and MacOSX 10.3.9) Linux sets the umask in /etc/csh.login and 
profile; for Apple, I think the OS has 022 built-in (who knows where).

At least I have a process that isn't the child of a shell and it's creating 
directories 777 to put its log files into (it's a server). And there's no 
method that allows you to modify the umask so that  you can make it 022 or 
002.  I can do that but as a stopgap I changed the permissions to 775 so 
that the directories aren't world writable (the write bit is not set for 
others) but are writable by others in the group.




> > VFS.st and File.st have changes made to the isFile method and other 
> > additions I've been using for a while now. I didn't include an isPipe in 
> > File, although it might be useful
> Okay.
> > In the Character Array class, the isNumeric method probably should be in 
> > a "testing" category instead of the "conversion" category. Also, it 
> > should probably be set up to handle fractions and floats with exponents, too.
> You're probably right.
>
> Paolo