[Chicago-talk] CGI umask

Ed Summers ehs at pobox.com
Wed Mar 3 08:26:47 CST 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:04:15PM -0600, jason scott gessner wrote:
> 	  my $old_mask = umask 000;
>         mkdir ($gallery_base_dsk . "$gallery_name/thumbnails", 0777);
>         umask $old_mask;

Is it possible that the directory exists already? I would check the return of 
mkdir()

    mkdir($gallery_base_dsk . "$gallery_name/thumbnails", 0777) or die $!;

You could try to chmod( 0777, "$gallery_name/thumbnails" ) in situations
where the directory already exists.

Grasping at straws,
//Ed



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