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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-05-26 16:14:26 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-05-26 16:14:26 -0500 |
| commit | 0c00a52e4968835cf292316a9c3f1d2a53d23504 (patch) | |
| tree | aa6722fe4ca6b96cc520b0cc80f6242ce7555864 | |
| parent | a79343e9e4c036fd12d7304ffdf71a7febfa0016 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-0c00a52e4968835cf292316a9c3f1d2a53d23504.tar.gz | |
umask.2: NOTES: Mention /proc/PID/status 'Umask' field
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/umask.2 | 5 |
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diff --git a/man2/umask.2 b/man2/umask.2 index e7ef16f9f6..b5c73e5bdc 100644 --- a/man2/umask.2 +++ b/man2/umask.2 @@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ inherits its parent's umask. The umask is left unchanged by .BR execve (2). +Since Linux 4.7, the umask of any process can be viewed via the +.I umask +field of +.IR /proc/[pid]/status . + The umask setting also affects the permissions assigned to POSIX IPC objects .RB ( mq_open (3), .BR sem_open (3), |