Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Ralph Lange) · Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:31:12 +0200 (METDST)

Marty wrote:

> In our vxWorks distribution I did a grep for DEFAULT_FILE_PERM
> and sure enough I found
> 
> h/ioLib.h:#define DEFAULT_FILE_PERM     0000640 
> 
> Changing the value to 644 should solve the problem
> 
> [...]
> 
> Ralph's solution solves the problem for all commands of the form
> 
> xxx > "file name"

Sorry - I don't think so.

As the shell task that opens the file comes as object code, changing the
header file will not change the behaviour of ">".

Nevertheless, WRS said they will think about making DEFAULT_FILE_PERM a
global variable to make it act like a shell's umask.

*Sigh*.

Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System