On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:04 AM, kalle <ka...@projektwerkstatt.de> wrote:
> in my version 4.4.0(1), > `umask' gives me a numeric output of `0022', > while `umask -S' gives me an output of `u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx'. > Shouldn't umask -S also formulate the mask in a negative way, as does > `umask'? Thus giving out `u=,g=w,o=w'? > > greetings, > kalle > > >From umask(1p): For a symbolic_mode value, the new value of the file mode creation mask shall be the logical complement of the file permission bits portion of the file mode specified by the symbolic_mode string.
