From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2011-11-22T16:26:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41196] Re: IO.copy_stream creates files with restrictive permissions

2011/11/22 Clifford Heath <clifford.heath@gmail.com>:

> The umask that almost every Unix distribution has always had in /etc/profile - which is 022.

/etc/profile is a configuration file for login shell.

There are processes which is not started via login shell, such as
daemons, cron jobs, etc.
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Tanaka Akira