From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-06-17T05:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: File.new('foo', 0600 , 'wb')

angus wrote:


> What is the difference if you are on a Unix system?


The code must be platform independent, so I need both the binary flag 
and the permissions flag.

> In any case, if you need
> to open the file with "wb", you can set first File.umask, then open with
> File.new "foo", "wb", and then restore File.umask to the original value.


Hmm...


Tobi


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