From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-06-17T06:33:25+09:00
Subject: Re: File.new('foo', 0600 , 'wb')

Carlos wrote:


> So you cannot specify permissions if you use "wb", this parameter is
> ignored. If you want to specify permissions, you must use numeric mode. Guy
> is suggesting that you do:
> 
> flag = File::CREAT
> flag |= File::BINARY if File::Constants.const_defined?("BINARY")
> File.new "foo", flag, 0600


I'm not sure if an alternative would be feasible, but I find all this 
very quirky. I just want save some image data, with permission 0600; the 
code should be very short and simple, and work on all major OSes. I do 
not want to write three lines of uppercase double colon mess.

Tobi

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