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Subject: Re: why doesnt the include file install set the file permisions to unwritable?
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Hill <[email protected]>
Cc: "'Core-Talk'" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:12:45 -0600
All files in the<base>/ include directory on my OS X machine are mode 644, as they should be.

Are you sure that what you're seeing isn't just the way that you've got your UMASK environment variable set?


On Nov 18, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Jeff Hill wrote:

All,

It appears that, both on Unix and Windows, the header files have their
permissions set to writeable after being installed into the include
directories. When I am in the IDE working away I sometimes inadvertently
double click on a compiler error message and end up
auto-opening-for-editing, and eventually modifying, an installed include file. It can definitely be very confusing if one modifies the installed include file, and not the source for the installed include file. I try to keep my guard up against this issue, but seem to keep repeating the same
mistake.

So, given this perspective and some others, it appears to be sensible for all include files to have their permissions set to un-writable when they are installed, but maybe there is some practical issue that prevents this from
being standard behavior that I don’t see?

Your thoughts?

Jeff
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