[Thunar-dev] how to make thunar use umask 0007

[Peter Kuma]

Jelle de Jong wrote:
> Hello everybody, I got a big issue on a multi use system that uses
> thunar as file manager.
> 
> The system and user umasks are set to 007 but when i create files and
> folders with thunar it does not correspond to the given umask. Can
> somebody duplicate this behavior and why is this and how can we fix this?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jelle
> 
> $ umask
> 0007
> $ thunar -v
> Thunar 0.9.0 (Xfce 4.4.2)
> 
I had the same problem. This fixed it:

--- thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs-io-jobs.c	(revision 27037)
+++ thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs-io-jobs.c	(working copy)
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@

  again:
        /* try to create the file at the given path */
-      fd = g_open (absolute_path, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY, 0644);
+      fd = g_open (absolute_path, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY, 0666);
        if (G_UNLIKELY (fd < 0))
          {
            /* check if the file already exists */
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@
        _thunar_vfs_job_process_path (job, lp);

        /* try to create the target directory */
-      if (!_thunar_vfs_io_ops_mkdir (lp->data, 0755, 
THUNAR_VFS_IO_OPS_NONE, error))
+      if (!_thunar_vfs_io_ops_mkdir (lp->data, 0777, 
THUNAR_VFS_IO_OPS_NONE, error))
          return FALSE;
      }


Peter Kuma