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Platform Utils create files with unspecified permissions on Solaris

           Summary: Platform Utils create files with unspecified permissions
                    on Solaris
           Product: Xerces-C++
           Version: 2.4.0
          Platform: Sun
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Utilities
        AssignedTo: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: kschultz@rsinc.com


When using the DOMWriter to serialize a document out to a new file, the file 
is created with bogus permissions.  In my case, it was 0060 (octal), with the 
locking bit set.  The expected behavior is something closer to 0666, before 
umask application.

The problem can be traced to the two openFileToWrite methods in 
util/Platforms/Solaris/SolarisPlatformUtils.cpp.  The open() function is used 
to create the files, and a third parm is required when O_CREAT is specified in 
the second parm.  Since the third parm is not specified, the file is created 
with an indeterminate set of permission bits.

One fix is to add a third parm, 0666 (octal), to both calls to open().

Another approach is to use fopen() instead of open().  All of the other 
platforms seem to use fopen(), so I'm not sure why open() is used on Solaris.

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