In this example, shouldn't the permissions of 'foo' be rwxrwxrwx with a umask of 000 unless foo was a pre-existing file? Your permissions are what I would expect with a umask of 111, but it works the same here (as your example).
Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:02:30 -0500
"Eric Wood" <eric@interplas.com> wrote:
But when a new child process spawns (say a shell script), the umask isI can't duplicate that either. [jkeating@yoda temp]$ umask 000
not inherited. Is there a fix for that?
[jkeating@yoda temp]$ ./script
0000
Touching foo
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 3 jkeating jkeating 4096 Dec 19 12:11 .
drwx------ 97 jkeating jkeating 8192 Dec 19 12:10 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jkeating jkeating 0 Dec 19 12:11 foo
[jkeating@yoda temp]$ cat script
#!/bin/sh
echo `umask`
echo "Touching foo"
touch foo
echo
ls -al
exit 0
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