TH UMASK 2 "24 July 93" "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

NAME
umask - set file creation mask

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/stat.h>

int umask(int mask);

DESCRIPTION
umask sets the umask to mask & 0777. The umask is used by open(2) to set initial file permissions on a newly-created file. Specifically, permissions in the umask are turned off from 0666 (so, for example, the common umask default value of 022 results in new files being created with permissions 0666 & ~022 = 0755 = rw-r--r--).

RETURN VALUE
The previous value of the mask is returned.

CONFORMING TO
SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3

SEE ALSO
creat(2), open(2)