Re: Bad file permissions on .xmhcache

Dear Harv,

In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
>
> If you haven't already, I suggest that you check the Msg-Protect setting in
> the mh-profile.  You should find that the value is used in lib/scan.tcl where
> the .xmhcache is created.

Ah, no, I had not found this yet.  Thanks for pointing out.

OK - but the mh_profile man page says for both Msg-Protect and
Folder-Protect that these hold "An  octal  number  which  defines  the
permission bitsAn  octal  number  which  defines  the permission bits"
...

So maybe we should modify lib/scan.tcl like that?


--- lib/scan.tcl.ORIG	2008-06-19 10:46:51.000000000 +0200
+++ lib/scan.tcl	2013-09-08 21:48:07.373187853 +0200
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
 	if {$force || ! [Scan_CacheValid $f]} {
 	    puts $out "catch \{send $myname \{Exmh_Status \"scan +$f\"\}\}"
 	    puts $out "catch {
-		set out \[open $mhProfile(path)/$f/.xmhcache w $mhProfile(msg-protect)\]
+		set out \[open $mhProfile(path)/$f/.xmhcache w 0$mhProfile(msg-protect)\]
 		exec $mhProfile(scan-proc) +$f -width $ftoc(scanWidth) -noheader >@\$out
 		close \$out
 	    }"

What do you think?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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