Re: [Quickfix-developers] [patch] Create directories with user-configurable permissions

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

Caleb Epstein wrote:
> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX FAQ: http://www.quickfixengine.org/wikifix/index.php?QuickFixFAQ
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
> 
> The following trivial patch allows the user of QuickFIX to control the
> permissions of any directories created by the FileLog and FileStore
> classes using their umask.  This is standard behavior.  The mode of a
> directory created by mkdir(2) is calculated from mode & ~umask, so the
> current value of 0700 makes it impossible to ever set any of the group
> or other access rights.
> 
> For example, we want our directories to have mode 0755 so that support
> personnel can monitor logfiles without needing to become the user that
> runs the FIX engine, which can be a security issue.

See bugtracker bug #79:

http://www.quickfixengine.org/bugtracker/bug.php?op=show&bugid=79

Fixed in CVS; I removed the mode argument from the file_mkdir() interface
and used mkdir( dir, 0777 ) internally.

Cheers, Jörg

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