At any rate, the behavior is POSIX-mandated. POSIX also has the note: "Some implementations of chmod never used the process' umask when changing modes; systems conformant with this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 do so when who is not specified."
Are we okay to close this bug out, then? (I don't feel confident to reject Zimmerman bugs ;) )
At any rate, the behavior is POSIX-mandated. POSIX also has the note: "Some implementations of chmod never used the process' umask when changing modes; systems conformant with this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 do so when who is not specified."
Are we okay to close this bug out, then? (I don't feel confident to reject Zimmerman bugs ;) )