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-rw-r--r--man2/umask.25
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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),