Re: [CentOS] typo in /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession

On 10/27/07, Luciano Rocha <strange@nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:44:52AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > On 10/27/07, Luciano Rocha <strange@nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > line 15:
> > > if ( unask 077 && cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null ); then
> > >
> > > Should be umask.
> >
> > I assure you this is not Johnny's typo. Looks like it will be corrected in 5.2.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236629
>
> I didn't assume it was,

Well, not so fast. There is a good reason why that was a possibility:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-September/086581.html

Be sure to read the next message in that thread :-)

>Granted, it's in
> a seldom viewed file, but that file is executed all the time.

Indeed surprising. This typo was already in Fedora Core 6 and it had not been corrected until recently (Fedora 8):

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=20835

Akemi

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