Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: Define new syscall getumask. | From | Pavel Emelyanov <> | Date | Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:05:09 +0300 |
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On 04/13/2016 02:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > It's not possible to read the process umask without also modifying it, > which is what umask(2) does. A library cannot read umask safely, > especially if the main program might be multithreaded. > > This patch series adds a trivial system call "getumask" which returns > the umask of the current process.
Ah! Thanks for this :)
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
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