Posted by Bret Hughes on 10/03/01 11:08

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:17, Jason Wong wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 23:30, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
> > If the needed permissions for standard PHP files and directories
> > are 'r' on files and 'r-x' on directories, how can I set my umask so
> > that files and directories are always created as such? I looked up
> > 'man umask' and it seems to treat files and directories the same way.
> > Maybe that is impossible, but I logged in via FTP to a server of a web
> > hosting company, and it implements just this: creates directories as
> > rwxr-xr-x and files as rw-r--r--.
>
> chmod() after creating any directory or file.
>

This is a very good idea. There was a bug in php at one time that
allowed a umask setting to be held in the apache process that it was run
in so you really could not rely on a umask being set to any specific
value.

It was reported via redhat:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121454

Bret

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