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In Unix what is UMASK Value?
Is it octal form or decimal form? And when we give permissions in chmod, as 644, is this 644 in octal or decimal. Does any conversion happen inside the kernel to do this? I am confused about this ....

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Last Update: November 23, 2006 Asked by: Somashekar

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