RE: Umask question

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Subject: RE: Umask question
From: "Styma, Robert E \(Robert\)" <stymar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:10:17 -0600
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Thread-topic: Umask question

 
> Hi
> 
> if I issue the ommand umask I get a value of 0022. I thought umask
> values were 022, what's the extra digit for?
> 
> Thanks
> Dan
By convention, octal numbers have a leading zero.  This is a
carry over from the C programming language.

Bob

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