Il giorno mer, 17/01/2007 alle 08.10 -0600, Styma, Robert E (Robert) ha scritto: > > 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. > The 4 digit for umask instead of 3 digit, is because of the octal notation. the first zero is to specify octal mode the last 3 digit is to specify the mask (in octal digit from 0 to 7) so the max number you can specify if 0777 Bye Ambrogio
