diff -r f4a1eac52d43 -r 8b4d4f84b739 mercurial/util.py
--- a/mercurial/util.py	Tue Apr 10 14:05:15 2007 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/util.py	Thu Apr 12 12:42:22 2007 -0500
@@ -807,6 +807,9 @@
         return lambda x: os.path.islink(os.path.join(path, x))
     return fallback
 
+_umask = os.umask(0)
+os.umask(_umask)
+
 # Platform specific variants
 if os.name == 'nt':
     import msvcrt
@@ -933,8 +936,6 @@
 
 else:
     nulldev = '/dev/null'
-    _umask = os.umask(0)
-    os.umask(_umask)
 
     def rcfiles(path):
         rcs = [os.path.join(path, 'hgrc')]