File permissions not being honored

I have the following destination directive:

destination d_user   { file("/var/log/user" perm(0644)); };

But, syslog-ng sets the file permissions to 0600.

I'm using version 1.4.17

Is my directive formatted incorrectly?

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Christopher Josephes
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