On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:29:14AM -0400, Robert G. Brown was only escaped alone to tell thee: > On UNIX systems generally, what determines the permission settings for > a file that is newly created by a program? man 2 umask It always succeeds and returns the previous umask. -- Holding your drinking to a schedule is always the first sign of alcoholism. -- Christopher Hitchens