From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-04-21T00:11:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13930] Re: File permissions

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:13921] File permissions"
    on 01/04/20, Farrel Lifson <flifson@cs.uct.ac.za> writes:

|When I call 
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|file = File.new "somefile.txt",File::CREAT|File::RDWR,0777
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|Ruby creates a file with permissions rwxr-xr-x (ie 0755) even though I asked for 0777. Is this a bug or security feature and if so how do I turn it off. I need  those permissions for a CGI script I'm writing. Anything else besides those permissions and the webserver returns an Internal Server error. 

I think you're working on UNIX.  see "man umask".  From Ruby, you can
access it via File.umask().

							matz.