[Qgis-developer] should QGIS modify files access permissions?

Maciej Sieczka tutey at o2.pl
Fri Jul 11 09:26:37 EDT 2008


Jürgen E. Fischer pisze:
> On Fri, 11. Jul 2008 at 10:27:24 +0200, Maciej Sieczka wrote:

>> What do you think about this issue? Am I correct to expect that 
>> QGIS should not change access rights of files it edits?

> I don't think it does.   Actually I don't think it cares at all as it
>  only calls libraries, so I'd expect the same when you work with 
> GRASS directly.

Right, I should have checked that - indeed the problem is down to GRASS,
not QGIS.

> Those are probably also not changing any access rights explictly, but
>  are just creating, deleting and removing files when editing.

So it seems. umask helps.

Cheers,
Maciek

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