From: Kless <jonas.esp@...>
Date: 2008-10-15T23:19:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Permissions at creating directory

On 15 oct, 09:37, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Kless wrote:
> > Why a new directory is ignoring my permissions?
>
> > Dir.mkdir('foo', 711)
>
> > It's created with 755, the permissions by deafult of my system. My
> > umask is to 0022.
>
> So what's "your system"? (i.e. OS and Ruby version)
>
> It Works For Me [TM]. This is Ubuntu Dapper with its default Ruby:
>
> irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
> => "1.8.4"
> irb(main):002:0> "%o" % File.umask
> => "22"
> irb(main):003:0> Dir.mkdir "foo1"
> => 0
> irb(main):004:0> `ls -ld foo1`
> => "drwxr-xr-x 2 candlerb candlerb 4096 2008-10-15 09:31 foo1\n"
> irb(main):005:0> Dir.mkdir "foo2", 0700
> => 0
> irb(main):006:0> `ls -ld foo2`
> => "drwx------ 2 candlerb candlerb 4096 2008-10-15 09:31 foo2\n"
> irb(main):007:0>
>
> but I get the same with 1.8.6p114 built from source under Ubuntu Hardy.
>
> What happens if you try to chmod the directory after creating it? What
> filesystem are you trying to create this directory in?
>
> If you have a Linux box but are creating files in a mounted MS-DOS
> filesystem (typically the case for a memory stick) then you'll get the
> same Unix mode bits for everything, as the filesystem doesn't store
> them.
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Thanks! You gave me the idea.

The problem is that I'm trying to create a subdirectory, anything as
'./foo/bar'. If it's tryed in irb, it gives a failure.

But I was calling it since a JRuby program where it's created
correctly except for the mode.