CNews problems

[Henry Spencer]

In article <17410 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>>I'm reluctant to do so as default, however, on the assumption that the
>>umask is usually set for a good reason.
>
>and what was the good reason berzerkeley used to change the behavior
>of chmod so that it used the umask?

They didn't.  This was a property of chmod as shipped by Bell Labs in V7.
On the whole, it's a good one.
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