On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:18:04AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Todd Wade, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> er, that is what it says, but its not the part I care about. This
> mask also says 'allow the group to read and write the file'.

That's sorta impossible, by definition.  umask is a purely negative
construct; it means "unset these", not "set all but these".  It's by
design that it doesn't add bits to what the higher level (i.e.,
open(2)) passes in.


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  [email protected]
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