[llvm-commits] Patch for llvm-ar, llvm-ranlib creating files with wrong? file access rights

[Duncan Sands]

On Thursday 15 May 2008 22:25:45 Owen Anderson wrote:
> On May 15, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Mikael Lepistö wrote:
> > +  if (archPath.makeWriteableOnDisk(ErrMsg))
> > +    return true;
> > +
> >
> 
> I don't understand why you're making it writable.  The permission that  
> normal ar sets are rw-r--r--.

On unix machines the usual thing is to pass ugo+rw to open, and it
will be masked with the current umask to produce (usually) something
tighter like rw-r--r--.  Dunno how this should be done in LLVM.

Ciao,

Duncan.