Re: gconftool-2 using user's umask - bug in gconf?

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 00:05, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 10:33, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 06:10, Rubens Ramos wrote:
> > >  So - is gconftool-2 supposed to create directories in 
> > > /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults with the same umask as the user
> > > who's executing it?
> > 
> > It doesn't seem right to me, no. Should be a one-line fix right?
> > 
> 
> Here's the issue: gconfd calls umask(022), but gconftool doesn't go
> through the daemon. We need to add a umask(022) to gconftool also.
> I'd say it's wrong to add it to the backends/libraries since it's a
> global setting.

Thanks to all for their help - I raised bug #145041 for this.