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From:
Kyle Ackerman <kack@kyleackerman.net>
Subject:
Re: umask assumptions in regressions
To:
Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
Cc:
"gameoftrees@openbsd.org" <gameoftrees@openbsd.org>
Date:
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:47:06 +0000

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I am good with dropping the diff. At least it is now in the ML to document this 
quirk in case someone else runs into it. 

Thanks,
Kyle


On Thursday, April 17th, 2025 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 09:14:52PM +0000, Kyle Ackerman wrote:
> 
> > +umask 022
> > regress_run_only=""
> 
> 
> The problem I have with this, is the umask setting is external to the
> environment which you're invoking "make tests" from. As such, if you know
> thwe umask is the cause of this, simply do:
> 
> (umask 022; make tests)
> 
> But I'm not keen on setting an explicit umask, regardless of how innocent a
> change this could be.
> 
> Kindly,
> Thomas