ok, i give up. kind of looks like the number is subtracted from 666, but
that's not quite correct.
how does this work? how does one set the x bit, for instance (not that
you'd want to, but i'm just curious).
umask 000 # rw-rw-rw-
umask 111 # rw-rw-rw-
umask 222 # r--r--r--
umask 333 # r--r--r--
umask 444 # -w--w--w-
umask 555 # -w--w--w-
umask 666 # ---------
umask 777 # ---------
pete
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