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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-07-24 13:16:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-07-24 13:16:16 +0200 |
| commit | 88f463a9be24eec79bf856dc4de7ec9ef226d8f3 (patch) | |
| tree | fc3d35ec3c92405864092dedfcf3ba1e3818a5f3 | |
| parent | 7f4e9716319d68b4a587694151362b9847626cfb (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-88f463a9be24eec79bf856dc4de7ec9ef226d8f3.tar.gz | |
open.2: Minor wording fixes
Add some paragraph breaks to the discussion of 'mode' to make
the details a bit easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/open.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index 2227f2159a..f83326cbc3 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -303,12 +303,16 @@ nor is specified, then .I mode is ignored. +.IP The effective mode is modified by the process's .I umask in the usual way: in the absence of a default ACL, the mode of the created file is .IR "(mode\ &\ ~umask)" . -Note that this mode applies only to future accesses of the +.IP +Note that +.I mode +applies only to future accesses of the newly created file; the .BR open () call that creates a read-only file may well return a read/write |