Following commit 086bbc5 (Use O_CLOEXEC as much as possible when opening files), the log file would be created by pacman with blank permissions. --- lib/libalpm/log.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/log.c b/lib/libalpm/log.c index d232bcc..9af5e84 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/log.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/log.c @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_logaction(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *prefix, int fd; do { fd = open(handle->logfile, O_WRONLY | O_APPEND | O_CREAT | O_CLOEXEC, - 0000); + 0644); } while(fd == -1 && errno == EINTR); if(fd >= 0) { handle->logstream = fdopen(fd, "a"); -- 2.2.1