Why do you want to give it the same permissions as its parent?
Honestly, now that you mention it, I don't really know. Probably I just saw that you
could set the permissions with mkdir and thought that I
had to. Which is, of course, nonsene.
I had a very strange day yesterday anyway, so I just blame my general dizziness for this. ;-)
Thank you all for your helpful insights. I am not experienced enough at the moment to know what exactly race conditions are, but it seems like a good idea to avoid them, so I will keep that in mind.
One more question though, regarding
linuxer's
answer:
I looked at File::Spec and I wondered whether there is a reason why you are using catfile instead of catdir.
Alex
