Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: Define new syscall getumask.

On 04/13/2016 02:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

It's not possible to read the process umask without also modifying it,
which is what umask(2) does.  A library cannot read umask safely,
especially if the main program might be multithreaded.

This patch series adds a trivial system call "getumask" which returns
the umask of the current process.

Ah! Thanks for this :)

Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <redacted>