Re: RFC: svnserve.conf umask directive

Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> A solution could perhaps be to only check that the current umask is
> correct, and abort if not. That would prevent repository "corruption"
> and let the user fix the problem. Unfortunately I'm not sure if it's
> possible to read the umask without setting it. Anyone?
>

It appears that on some architectures, getumask() is available (and is supposed
to be threadsafe), but all others would have to use:

               mode_t getumask(void) {
                    mode_t mask = umask(0);
                    umask(mask);
                    return mask;
               }

[direct quote from the getumask man page) and worry about threads conflicting.

John

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