[Chicago-talk] CGI umask

[jason scott gessner]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 13:50, Steven Lembark wrote:

> As a general approach, you can mkdir the new one, chmod
> it to the appropriate mods, then stat it. That allows for
> existing directories + ones you don't own that have the
> correct mod's anyway.
> 

I'm not sure I follow you, Steven.  What does stat'ing it do?  And by
that do you simply mean doing a file test (-d, -r, etc?).

Thanks.

-jason