File::Temp permisions?

[Anonymous Monk]

I'm confused again.

I'm using File::Temp in a CGI program on apache/LINUX. The temp files get created just fine but I need to access them later in the program with another program called with system(). Problem is the permissions are 600 and the owner is 'nobody'.

• Who is the user when running system?
• Can I change/set the permisions using File::Temp?
• What happens later when I port this to Windows?

I guess what I'm asking is what is the best way to deal with this to be portable? I soppose I could use chmod() but what will windows think?

[misterb101]

Hi anonymous, the owner of new files created by an cgi process is the user that is running apache. usually this is www-data, apache or just nobody.
I don't think File::Temp offers setting of file permissions but you can do this by either.
- chmod 0755 ,$file;
- changing apache config to set the file create mask to 755 or whatever you like

In windows I don't know what would happen since I never work on windows systems anymore ;)

Cheers,
Rob

[MCS]

I don't really do windows much anymore but file permissions are a bit lax on windows so I don't think it should be a problem. If I remember correctly, chmod() is ignored on windows.