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harmic
harmic

Reputation: 30597

make_path does not set mode as specified

When I call make_path (from the core File::Path module, supplying a mode, the directory that is created does not have the mode I requested:

$ perl -MFile::Path=make_path -e 'make_path("foobar", { mode=>0770 });'
$ ls -ld foobar/
drwxr-x--- 2 itk itkadm 4096 Sep 19 11:10 foobar/

I was expecting to see:

drwxrwx--- 2 itk itkadm 4096 Sep 19 11:07 foobar/

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1076

Answers (2)

harmic
harmic

Reputation: 30597

I missed this detail in the make_path documentation:

mode: The numeric permissions mode to apply to each created directory (defaults to 0777), to be modified by the current umask.

I was not expecting this because the shell equivalent (mkdir -m 0770 -p foobar) does not consider umask.

This works as expected:

$ perl -MFile::Path=make_path -e 'umask(0); make_path("foobar", { mode=>0770 });'
$ ls -ld foobar/
drwxrwx--- 2 itk itkadm 4096 Sep 19 11:13 foobar/

Note the umask(0).

As pointed out by Evan Carroll, the version of File::Path supplued with newer perl versions (>=5.24) have a chmod option which may be a more convenient way to set the mode of created directories.

Upvotes: 2

Evan Carroll
Evan Carroll

Reputation: 1

Rather than setting the permissions for the directory to 0. Try instead just using the chmod option to File::Path::make_path

perl -MFile::Path=make_path -e 'make_path("foobar", { chmod=>0770 });'

Upvotes: 2

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