On 16-May-05, at 10:42 PM, ben@fuhok.net wrote:

I imagine that it is intentional, since it works as the documentation says it should, but why is the default mode for `create-directory' #o666? It seems to me that one would more usually want something like #o755.

Yes you are right and I've fixed the problem like so,

create-directory: permissions default to #o777 open-* and create-fifo: permissions default to #o666

Note that the permissions, whether they are explicitly specified or the default is used, are modified with the 'umask' before being applied. I'm thinking of adding a current-umask parameter object (initialized to the process' umask), similar to the current-directory parameter object, that will give a finer control over the umask. Any objections/suggestions?

Marc