Hmmm, I have to respectfully disagree with you on this one. A file mode of 0644 or 0600 do not restrict the file owners options as the owner can still read/update/delete the file. These more restricted file modes only limit what other users can do with the file.

Having had a bit more time to think on this (also more caffine), I still think a mask of 0666 with sysopen is less than desirable for a couple of reasons:
- what if your umask is not set sanely?
- what if your umask changes?

If you don't supply a mask to sysopen it will just create the file and apply the umask at create time. Personally, I think paranoia is good and chmoding the file immediately after the create to most restricted mode possible while still making the file available to those processes and/or users that need to access the file is the best policy.

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