Karl Berry wrote: > https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00042.html > > I can understand increasing permissions to allow +rx on installation > directories, but why force 755, thus disallowing group writability? > I've never understood this forcing of 755.
As the one who originally brought this up on bug-bison, I was only referring to newly created install directories. Existing directories should not have their mode changed, IMHO. One can certainly argue for g+w. Since the directories are newly created, one cannot look at the existing mode to decide whether to do this. One could use the umask for that bit only, though this may be a bit unintuitive. So a typical umask of 022 or 077 would result in 755, but a umask of 002 or 007 would result in 775. Regards, Frank
