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UMASK(3P) POSIX Programmer's ManualUMASK(3P)This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
umask — set and get the file mode creation mask
#include <sys/stat.h> mode_t umask(mode_tcmask);
Theumask() function shall set the file mode creation mask of the process tocmask and return the previous value of the mask. Only the file permission bits ofcmask (see<sys/stat.h>) are used; the meaning of the other bits is implementation-defined. The file mode creation mask of the process is used to turn off permission bits in themode argument supplied during calls to the following functions: *open(),openat(),creat(),mkdir(),mkdirat(),mkfifo(), andmkfifoat() *mknod(),mknodat() *mq_open() *sem_open() Bit positions that are set incmask are cleared in the mode of the created file.
The file permission bits in the value returned byumask() shall be the previous value of the file mode creation mask. The state of any other bits in that value is unspecified, except that a subsequent call toumask() with the returned value ascmask shall leave the state of the mask the same as its state before the first call, including any unspecified use of those bits.
No errors are defined.The following sections are informative.
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Unsigned argument and return types forumask() were proposed. The return type and the argument were both changed tomode_t. Historical implementations have made use of additional bits incmask for their implementation-defined purposes. The addition of the text that the meaning of other bits of the field is implementation-defined permits these implementations to conform to this volume of POSIX.1‐2017.
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creat(3p),exec(1p),mkdir(3p),mkfifo(3p),mknod(3p),mq_open(3p),open(3p),sem_open(3p) The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017,sys_stat.h(0p),sys_types.h(0p)
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online athttp://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, seehttps://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .IEEE/The Open Group 2017UMASK(3P)Pages that refer to this page:sys_stat.h(0p), mkdir(1p), sh(1p), umask(1p), exec(3p), mkdir(3p), mkfifo(3p), mknod(3p), open(3p), posix_typed_mem_open(3p), shm_open(3p)
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