On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:08:14PM -0400, Ivan Dobrianov wrote:
> Does anyone know why the following code creates a file with read/write
> permissions, instead of only read permissions?
If I am not completely wrong, you must set the umask *before*
creating/opening the file. Setting it afterwards does not influence the
permissions of the file just created.
> int fd = open ("delme.txt", openflag, mode);
>
> printf("fd = %d\n", fd);
> mode_t mask = umask(0);
> umask(mask);
> printf("umask = %d\n", mask);
Bye
Jerry
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