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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmers
Subject: Re: Permission at the time of file creation
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Date: 22 Jun 91 03:14:26 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.201632.2407@menudo.uh.edu> rmdubash@hermes.cs.uh.edu () writes:
>   I am using SunOS4.1.1 and trying to open a file using the open system call 
> with a mode value 777.

Modes are expressed in octal. In C, 777 is decimal. 0777 is octal.

There is no comp.unix.programmers group, by the way.

---Dan