-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 06:39:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello!
[...] > Furthermore, AFAICS, the above logic is redundant with what the kernel > does anyway. That is, in a single-threaded program, > > mask = umask (0); > umask (mask); > mkdir (file, 0777 ^ mask); > > is equivalent to: > > mkdir (file, 0777); > > Am I right that we should just remove these two ‘umask’ calls? According to umask(2), yes, you are right. Unless someone has been trying to work around some platform-specific bug/idiosyncracy. Regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlf73SEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZehwCfQ+P2CMZt8doHe2tKi0u1Yc7f RU0An0WY1oEq/b3vu/X1rNWjTP7ZxUsY =7Jhs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----