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ouch...
didnt have section 2 & 3 installed...;-)
thanks!
kishor
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From: Pablo Ares Gastesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] umask behaviour
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> >
> > # umask
> > 022
> > # touch new
> > # ls -l new
> > -rw-r--r-- [snip]
> >
> > The execute permissions arent turned off... still ''new'' doesnt have
> > them...what is the reason for this, and how is it done?
>
> From the umask(2) man page:
>
> The umask is used by open(2) to set initial file permis-
> sions on a newly-created file. Specifically, permissions
> in the umask are turned off from the mode argument to
> open(2) (so, for example, the common umask default value
> of 022 results in new files being created with permissions
> 0666 & ~022 = 0644 = rw-r--r-- in the usual case where the
> mode is specified as 0666).
>
> Pablo.
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