Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:22:31AM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > You can't have +x in any umask. It is used to filter _out_ bits of the
> > filemode (resulting mode=(requested mode & ~umask)). So you can only
> > delete bits which were requested, but you can't add bits.
> 
> ok, so umask = 000 would make +x possible. I just tested it, open(2)ing
> and closing a file, without setting any permission. It gets the funny
> permission --wSrw---x.
> 
Yes, because you have to pass permissions otherwise you get just the random
data on the stack when you call :)
Remember this is C and not C++

Greetings, Stephan

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