[m-dev.] `.d' files created with mode 0400

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-Sep-1999, Warwick Harvey <wharvey at cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> I was wondering if there was any particular reason why `.d' files should 
> have mode 0400?  I realise it's an artifact of the way they're created, but 
> I was wondering if there was also some other reason why they're not 
> 0666-umask like everything else.

No, that was unintentional.

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