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Please, can someone explain this to me?
I set:
umask 000
touch afile.tmp
result:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jay apache 0 Aug 16 18:11 afile.tmp
I was expecting this:
-rw-rw-rw-
to be like this:
-rwxrwxrwx
Why isn't umask setting the 'x'`s of the permissions for new file modifications?
umask is working precisely as expected - a mask of 0000 means permissions are 666 (rw-rw-rw-) for files and 777 (rwxrwxrwx) for directories. The execute bit is set for directories and not files. Case in point: the default umask is 0022, but files you create don't have the execute bit set by default, do they?
