File::Path problem

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to use File:Path to simplify the creation of directories and I am having issues with setting the permissions.

using the line: mkpath('./test/imadethis',0,0777);

does NOT give all uses write access to the newly created directory. In fact, not matter what combinations of permissions I use can give write access to all users, but owner and group work as expected.

All users have write permission to ./test

any ideas?

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Re: File::Path problem by ferrency (Deacon) on Apr 24, 2002 at 17:39 UTC
`perldoc -f umask` Your current umask is probably preventing the bits from being set properly. If you do a `chmod` after the fact, they'll be set correctly. You could also reset your umask, but that has the potential to cause you to create files/directories in other places with insecurely lax permissions. Alan	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: File::Path problem by stephen (Priest) on Apr 24, 2002 at 17:39 UTC
The permissions on newly created directories are modified by your umask value. So if you create a new directory (with `mkpath` or `mkdir`) with specified permissions of 0777 but with a umask of 022, then the mode of the directory will be 0755. See umask for how to change your umask value. stephen	[reply] [d/l] [select]