Re: As an example, if `umask' has the value 2, which removes write

[email protected] (Bob Proulx)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
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Krzysztof Bryla <[email protected]> [2002-10-24 07:39:10 +0200]:
> permission for users who are not in the file's group, then the mode:
> 
>      +w
> 
> adds permission to write to the file to its owner and to other users who
> are in the file's group, but _not_ to other users.  In contrast, the
> mode:
> 
>      a+w
> 
> ignores `umask', and _does_ give write permission for the file to all
> users.

Yes.  That is all correct.  But I fail completely to understand what
point you are trying to make.

> pinfo umask

You don't need to include the same documentation three times in a
row.  Once would have been sufficient.

Bob
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