[ruby-core:75078] [Ruby trunk Bug#12307] File.new and File.open change permissions even if the file exists on Windows

Issue #12307 has been updated by Benoit Daloze.


FWIW, Ruby documentation of File.open and File.new is also phrased the same way:
"If a file is being created, its initial permissions may be set using the perm parameter."
"If a file is being created, permission bits may be given in perm."

It is very clear the permissions are only for newly-created files.

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Bug #12307: File.new and File.open change permissions even if the file exists on Windows
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12307#change-58201

* Author: Benoit Daloze
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [i386-mingw32]
* Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN
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For instance:

~~~
# New file
File.open("abc", "w", 0666) { |f|
  puts f.stat.mode.to_s(8) # => 100666, OK
}

# File exists
File.open("abc", "w", 0466) { |f|
  puts f.stat.mode.to_s(8) # => 100444, BUG
}
~~~

So the mode of the file was changed even though the file already exists.
This is inconsistent with the behavior on other platforms such as UNIX which only consider mode for new files.
open(2) is fairly clear about this on Linux and OS X: "if neither O_CREAT nor O_TMPFILE is specified, then mode is ignored".



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