Android file creation permissions

[JD Austin]

You can deal with this on the server by marking a directory setgid (g+s)
will make new files inherit the group ownership of the directory I believe.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> While I am totally unable to answer your question, there is an obvious
> question to ask you.  Have you tried any OTHER text editor to see if it
> have the same problem or if the problem is isolated to Jotta (actually Jota
> I think)?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Shawn Badger <shawn at badger.pro> wrote:
>
>> I have an Android tablet running Cyanogenmod 7 that is using
>> CifsManager to mount a share. That all works well, but the problem I
>> am having is when an application (Jotta Text editor in this case)
>> creates a file on the share it creates it with a 600 file permission,
>> but when I create it from a terminal it creates the file with a 666
>> file permission which is what I want. I am trying to figure out how to
>> change the way the application is saving the files. I have set the
>> smb.conf so the default file mode  is 666 and also put file_mode=666
>> in the options for CifsManager, but the applications seem to ignore
>> those settings.  Does anyone know how to get the applications (without
>> changing the modifying it) to stop overriding the default?
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