So, what is Inplace doing and how and why is it changing permissions? And how can I stop it?
Investigate.
http://search.cpan.org/src/CHIPT/File-Inplace-0.20/lib/File/Inplace.pm
No chmod, no umask, uses File::Copy, File::Temp
http://search.cpan.org/src/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8/lib/File/Copy.pm
No chmod, no umask
http://search.cpan.org/src/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8/lib/File/Temp.pm
Bingo 
# Internal routine to force a temp file to be writable after
# it is created so that we can unlink it. Windows seems to occassional
+ly
# force a file to be readonly when written to certain temp locations
sub _force_writable {
  my $file = shift;
  my $umask = umask();
  umask(066);
  chmod 0600, $file;
  umask($umask) if defined $umask;
}

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With a umask of 066 only the creator of the file will be able to read or write to the file. File::Inplace needs to account for this behaviour.

In reply to Re: File::Inplace module is altering file permissions/ownership by Anonymous Monk
in thread File::Inplace module is altering file permissions/ownership by mojodaddy

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