I am trying to troubleshoot a pretty robust application that has some functions that don't work properly. The application has a "savefile" function that combines with a "fileisreadonly". The files saved using "savefile" function always end up as 0600 permissions instead of 0644 in normal OS file saves. The code is as follows:

sub savefile {    # Determine which save routine to use and then use i
+t
    my ( $textwindow, $top ) = ( $::textwindow, $::top );
    ::hidepagenums();
    my $filename = $::lglobal{global_filename};
    if ( $filename =~ /No File Loaded/ ) {
        unless ( ::isedited() ) {
            return;
        }
        my ($name);
        $name = $textwindow->getSaveFile(
            -title      => 'Save As',
            -initialdir => $::globallastpath
        );
        if ( defined($name) and length($name) ) {
            $textwindow->SaveUTF($name);
            $name = ::os_normal($name);
            ::_recentupdate($name);
        } else {
            return;
        }
    } else {
        my $ans = !fileisreadonly($filename) || 'Yes' eq $top->message
+Box(
            -icon    => 'warning',
            -title   => 'Confirm save?',
            -type    => 'YesNo',
            -default => 'no',
            -message =>
              "File $filename is write-protected. Remove write-protect
+ion and save anyway?",
            );
        return unless $ans;
        $::top->Busy( -recurse => 1 );
        if ($::autobackup) {
            if ( -e $filename ) {
                if ( -e "$filename.bk2" ) {
                    unlink "$filename.bk2";
                }
                if ( -e "$filename.bk1" ) {
                    rename(
                        "$filename.bk1",
                        "$filename.bk2"
                    );
                }
                rename(
                    $filename,
                    "$filename.bk1"
                );
            }
        }
        $textwindow->SaveUTF;
        $::top->Unbusy( -recurse => 1 );
    }
    $textwindow->ResetUndo;    #necessary to reset edited flag
    ::_bin_save();
    ::setedited(0);
    ::set_autosave() if $::autosave;
    ::update_indicators();
}

sub fileisreadonly {
    my $name = shift;
    my $mode = (stat($name))[2];
    return 0 if ( $mode & 0200 );
    return 1;
}

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I must note here that an accompanying file generated by the application saves with 0644 permissions.

I noticed in another post on your site that "stat" does not return a value unless "File::stat" in included. Is this the issue?

Regards, Wayne

In reply to File permissions problem by wdhammond

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