From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:20:36 GMT Subject: Re: Default "tar" umask.. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vmz4xdssh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano writes: > If the archive is made with 022, that would > break expectation of users whose umask is 002 (a sane value in > modern "own" group setups). What exactly do they expect from 002? That root group will be able to write to the files? 002 umasks and per-user groups were created, IIRC, purely as as ACL substitute. I wonder how many people really need anything like that, especially human people (not news.news things and root.uucp /dev/ttyS*). I guess not very many. -- Krzysztof Halasa