On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > umask only works for the user/group/other bits of the file, not for the > special bits so you should never see something like a 1077 returned as a > umask
True - the value for the special bits only has meaning for chmod to actually set those bits for a directory or file -- not umask. So it will always be 0 in the context of umask. Scott Rohling > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
