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author | 2000-10-18 05:12:06 +0000 | |
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committer | 2000-10-18 05:12:06 +0000 | |
commit | ea418ffe85da8239e30bb1c3e28466cf6b8f685e (patch) | |
tree | 01651b197bba18ec88ec6a378fec58207d2f3632 /lib/libc/sys/umask.2 | |
parent | get the bounds checking right for the data used in copyout() in several (diff) | |
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Another round of man page cleanup, this time to remove more hard sentence
breaks and getting rid of short lines, making these files easier to work with.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/umask.2')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/umask.2 b/lib/libc/sys/umask.2 index 77b7b4eafcf..05491d19007 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/umask.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/umask.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: umask.2,v 1.4 1999/06/29 14:10:27 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: umask.2,v 1.5 2000/10/18 05:12:12 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: umask.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:39:06 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -50,9 +50,8 @@ The .Fn umask routine sets the process's file mode creation mask to .Fa numask -and returns the previous value of the mask. The 9 low-order -access permission -bits of +and returns the previous value of the mask. +The 9 low-order access permission bits of .Fa numask are used by system calls, including .Xr open 2 , @@ -60,12 +59,10 @@ are used by system calls, including .Xr mkfifo 2 and .Xr mknod 2 -to turn off corresponding bits -requested in file mode. +to turn off corresponding bits requested in the file mode. (See .Xr chmod 2 ) . -This clearing allows each user to restrict the default access -to his files. +This clearing allows each user to restrict the default access to his files. .Pp The default mask value is S_IWGRP|S_IWOTH (022, write access for the owner only). @@ -85,6 +82,5 @@ function is always successful. .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn umask -function call is expected to -conform to +function call is expected to conform to .St -p1003.1-88 . |