[Debichem-devel] Bug#724547: Bug#724547: qutemol ignores umask, creates all files as 0600

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:43:34AM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> When creating files for export (animated gifs, for example), qutemol always
> seems to create them mode 0600. My umask is 0002 not 0066 and changing the
> permissions of any files that qutemol has written is something I'm always
> going to forget to do :(

While looking at LP#1178239, I also checked out this one.

It appears to be an issue with libgif-dev, Qutemol calls its function
EGifOpenFileName() which apparently does not honor the umask.  So I
guess Qutemol should fix it up itself afterwards.


Michael