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

[Jelle de Jong]

Peter Kuma wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks for providing this info, I now have seen several reports a
similar issue. Did you report this patch somewhere, and do you know if
there is a solution in the upstream svn?

Best regards,

Jelle