Well, you modified your post, so you get a second reply. You're still wrong though.
what if your umask is not set sanely?
Well, that's the user's choice, isn't? Who are you to determine whether a user has set his/her umask "sanely"? What umasks are sane, and which one aren't?
what if your umask changes?
Well, what about?
If you don't supply a mask to sysopen it will just create the file and apply the umask at create time.
Djee. If you don't supply a mask to sysopen, sysopen will use 0666 or 0777. That doesn't result in less permissions than supplying 0666.
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.
I agree paranoia is good. Don't trust programmers who think they know better than the user what's good for them. In general, you have no idea which processes or users are going to need access to the files created - so you better leave the decision what appropriate file permissions are to the user.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Setting permissions as text file is created by Abigail-II
in thread Setting permissions as text file is created by Hissingsid

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