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diff --git a/man3/getumask.3 b/man3/getumask.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..78b373809 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/getumask.3 @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2002 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" This replaces an earlier man page written by Walter Harms +.\" <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>. +.\" +.TH GETUMASK 3 2002-08-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +getumask \- get file creation mask +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B "#include <sys/types.h>" +.br +.B "#include <sys/stat.h>" +.sp +.B "mode_t getumask(void);" +.SH DESCRIPTION +This function returns the current file creation mask. +It is equivalent to +.RS +.nf +mode_t getumask(void) { + mode_t mask = umask(0); + umask(mask); + return mask; +} +.fi +.RE +except that it is documented to be thread-safe (that is, shares +a lock with the +.I umask() +library call). +.SH NOTES +This function is documented but not implemented yet in glibc 2.2.5. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +This is a vapourware GNU extension. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR umask (2) |