Hi Wayne,

As far as I can tell from the code you posted, the actual code that opens the file and writes to it is probably somewhere in the SaveUTF method.

The two examples I showed can be used to check the umask from the command line like so:

$ umask
0022
$ perl -e 'printf "%04o\n", umask;'
0022

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Or, the best thing is probably to put the statement printf "%04o\n", umask; somewhere in your Perl script, maybe something like warn sprintf("umask is %04o\n",umask); so that it's printed to STDERR.

Update: In your OP you wrote "I must note here that an accompanying file generated by the application saves with 0644 permissions." That makes it a little less likely to be a umask problem; perhaps the application uses sysopen with explicit perms set. But without having the code to look at these are all guesses.

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

Update: Replaced "an explicit mode" with "explicit perms" since that's the terminology used in sysopen.

In reply to Re^3: File permissions problem (updated) by haukex
in thread File permissions problem by wdhammond

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