[klibc] [patch] fix dd file permissions

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Nov 19 08:40:58 PST 2003


Martin Hicks wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a small patch to fix dd so that files are created with
> reasonable permissions of 0644.  Without this patch my files were being
> created -r-S-----T, which is silly.
> 

Typically this should be 0666 and umask should be used to mask any other 
bits.

	-hpa



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