[Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library (was: Inherance of file descriptor and handles on Windows (PEP 446)) (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Fri Jul 26 05:48:14 CEST 2013

On 25Jul2013 17:26, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: | Le Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:08:18 +1000, | Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> a écrit : | > Work continues on the PEP 3143-compatible ‘python-daemon’, porting it | > to Python 3 and aiming for inclusion in the standard library. || The PEP hasn't been formally accepted yet, however. | Skimming back through the archives, one sticking point was the default | value of the "umask" parameter. Setting the umask to 0 if the user | didn't ask for something else is a disaster, security-wise.

I have to say, +10 here.

I have always found the convention that daemons have a umask of 0 to be utterly bogus, because almost all library code relies on the umask to set default security policy for initial file permissions.

Prone to rant on this at length if required...

Cheers,

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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