The default value for mkpath's mode parameter is 0777 but it isn't used
at any place; attached is a patch that just pass the parameter to
os.mkdir call, this seems to fix the problem.

This patch looks good to me.  Greg?

Still present in 2.6/3.0

Confirmed in trunk (2.7rc2), py3k (3.2), irrelevant for distutils2. Is it too late for 2.7?

> Is it too late for 2.7?

I have no idea.

It does look as though someone has written unit tests for distutils, so the patch needs a test change too.  Henrique?

I'm unassigning this since I no longer know how to commit changes to Python.  Sorry, I just haven't kept track over the years, I don't follow python-dev anymore, and I could not find documentation explaining where I should commit what sort of changes.

Patch updated, now it includes test.

Improving tests

Fixed for py3k in r84861, release31-maint in r84863 and release27-maint in r84862.

Thanks for patch, Carlos Henrique Romano.

This update appears to be turning the windows buildbots red.  See for example http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86 XP-4 3.1/builds/1230/steps/test/logs/stdio.

I have skipped the mode tests on windows platforms, as they are not
really applicable.
Lets see the buildbots status and close the bug.

All buildbots are red.

Updating test in order to consider umask, this is supposed to fix buildbot issues.

Buildbots are green now after fixing the mode issue in the tests in r84889,r84890,r84891