10 Feb
2005
10 Feb
'05
2:45 a.m.
John Lange wrote:
The documentation and examples on umask state that you provide a mask that is subtracted from rwx (777) access to generate a default access for newly created files.
It clearly doesn't work this way.
If you have a umask of 022, newly created files are rw-r--r-- (644). It should be rwxr-xr-x (755). The umask is acting like its 033 and indeed changing it to 033 has no effect on newly created files.
It depends on what specification is used by the program that is creating the file. I think the default for most programs is to not set the x flag.