Re: 0.17: open-with-O_CREAT needs third argument

[John Cowan]

Chuck Swiger scripsit:

> If you're creating a file on behalf of the user, I would expect it to  
> receive permissions which reflect whatever umask(2) has been set to.   

The current umask is *automatically* applied to the permissions specified
in file-creation system calls.  That's the whole point of it: so that
the program can be written to specify maximal permissions (as Unix programs
historically have been) and the user can then reduce the permissions by
setting the umask.

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