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* Set the umask to known value (0022). This is important in a

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setuid installation, since the calling user may have a more fascist
  umask (say, 0077), which would cause the store objects built by Nix
  to be unreadable to anyone other than the Nix user.
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Eelco Dolstra 2004-09-09 14:16:02 +00:00
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@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ static void initAndRun(int argc, char * * argv)
if (sigaction(SIGPIPE, &act, &oact))
throw SysError("ignoring SIGPIPE");
/* There is no privacy in the Nix system ;-) At least not for
now. In particular, store objects should be readable by
everybody. This prevents nasty surprises when using a shared
store (with the setuid() hack). */
umask(0022);
/* Process the NIX_LOG_TYPE environment variable. */
string lt = getEnv("NIX_LOG_TYPE");
if (lt != "") setLogType(lt);