[PATCH] xfree86: set a sane umask before opening the log

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Nov 17 08:27:34 PST 2009


On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 18:39 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Xorg creates its log file following the umask of the user running
> startx, which may result in a world-writable log.  Set umask to 022 to
> prevent this.

Boo to startx, but

Reviewed-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>

- ajax
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