Re: [PATCH 2/2] tmon: set umask to a reasonable value

From: Jacob Pan
Date: Tue Jun 17 2014 - 17:15:01 EST


On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:05:09 -0400
Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> current, the tmon umask value is set to 0, which mean whatever the
Currently, ..., which means ...
> permission mask in the shell are when starting tmon in daemon mode
> are what the permissions of any created files will be. We should
> likely set something more explicit, so lets go with the usual 022
>
Just some grammar suggestion. Otherwise,
Acked-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.c b/tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.c
> index 059e0be..09b7c32 100644
> --- a/tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.c
> +++ b/tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.c
> @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static void start_daemon_mode()
> disable_tui();
>
> /* change the file mode mask */
> - umask(0);
> + umask(S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH);
>
> /* new SID for the daemon process */
> sid = setsid();

[Jacob Pan]

--
Thanks,

Jacob
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