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UMASK !!!UMASK NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE CONFORMING TO SEE ALSO ---- !!NAME umask - set file creation mask !!SYNOPSIS __#include __ #include __ __mode_t umask(mode_t__ ''mask''__);__ !!DESCRIPTION __umask__ sets the umask to ''mask'' '' The umask is used by open(2) to set initial file permissions 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 __mode__ is specified as 0666). !!RETURN VALUE This system call always succeeds and the previous value of the mask is returned. !!CONFORMING TO SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3 !!SEE ALSO creat(2), open(2) ----
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