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From: adelman@LBL-CSA2.ARPA (Kenneth Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Creating files from C
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Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 09:21:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 10 09:21:07 1987
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    The problem with umask() was well put by Jerry. I ran into this
a few weeks ago and discovered an interesting workaround --

    (void) umask(-1);

    This tells the Unix emulator to deney all files access bits,
causing it to set the XAB$W_PROT field to zero.  However, setting
XAB$W_PRO to zero doesn't have the affect of creating a file with all
access denied, but rather creating a file with the VMS semantics for
default protection.

					    Kenneth Adelman
					    LBL