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Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -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 |