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authorJacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org>2008-08-27 22:21:14 +0000
committerJacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org>2008-08-27 22:21:14 +0000
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Fixed #8454: added a FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting to control the permissoin of files uploaded by the built-in file storage system. Thanks, dcwatson.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@8640 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -453,6 +453,8 @@ Default: ``'utf-8'``
The character encoding used to decode any files read from disk. This includes
template files and initial SQL data files.
+.. setting:: FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS
+
FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS
--------------------
@@ -465,6 +467,8 @@ Default::
A tuple of handlers to use for uploading. See :ref:`topics-files` for details.
+.. setting:: FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE
+
FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE
---------------------------
@@ -475,6 +479,8 @@ Default: ``2621440`` (i.e. 2.5 MB).
The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to
the file system. See :ref:`topics-files` for details.
+.. setting:: FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR
+
FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR
--------------------
@@ -488,6 +494,34 @@ example, this will default to '/tmp' on \*nix-style operating systems.
See :ref:`topics-files` for details.
+.. setting:: FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS
+
+FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS
+-----------------------
+
+Default: ``None``
+
+The numeric mode (i.e. ``0644``) to set newly uploaded files to. For
+more information about what these modes mean, see the `documentation for
+os.chmod`_
+
+If this isn't given or is ``None``, you'll get operating-system
+dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode
+of ``0600``, and files saved from memory will be saved using the
+system's standard umask.
+
+.. warning::
+
+ **Always prefix the mode with a 0.**
+
+ If you're not familiar with file modes, please note that the leading
+ ``0`` is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the
+ way that modes must be specified. If you try to use ``644``, you'll
+ get totally incorrect behavior.
+
+
+.. _documentation for os.chmod: http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html
+
.. setting:: FIXTURE_DIRS
FIXTURE_DIRS