[Haskell-cafe] GHC bindist permissions (Was: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available)

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2022, Ben Gamari wrote:

> Out of curiosity, have you set umask to 077 intentionally or is this
> somehow accidental? This does seem like a very strange configuration
> (although GHC should work nevertheless).

It is set by intention. The configuring user is an unprivileged one. Is 
this uncommon?