Re: Directories created with default mode 0755 with ExtUtils::Install

Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:53:17 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.extutils-makemaker.devel
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Mandalemula, Rajesh wrote:
> ExtUtils::Install creates directries with 0755 by default, ditto for
> ExtUtils::MM_Any (blib directories). Probably, there should be a way to
> override the default directory creation mode. Alternatively, the module
> could allow user's umask take the precedence.

Could you explain why you need this?  Is it to allow 0775 group write access?

Allowing a way to override the default umask would remove one of the Debian
patches to Perl that's been in there for ages.  They strip the hard coded 0755
out of ExtUtils::Install and presumably use the umask.
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/perl/perl_5.10.0-19.diff.gz

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