Hi,
skribis:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 06:39:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello!
>
> [...]
>
>> Furthermore, AFAICS, the above logic is redundant with what the kernel
>> does anyway. That is, in a single-threaded program,
>>
>> mask = umask (0);
>> umask (mask);
>> mkdir (file, 0
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 06:39:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
[...]
> Furthermore, AFAICS, the above logic is redundant with what the kernel
> does anyway. That is, in a single-threaded program,
>
> mask = umask (0);
> umask (mask);
Hello!
When the optional ‘mode’ argument to the ‘mkdir’ procedure is omitted,
umask(2) is used to find out what the current mask is and to compute the
mode argument to mkdir(2):
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if (SCM_UNBNDP (mode))
{
mask = umask (0)
