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43 .Fd #include <unistd.h>
45 .Fn getmode "const void *set" "mode_t mode"
47 .Fn setmode "const char *mode_str"
52 returns a copy of the file permission bits
54 as altered by the values pointed to by
56 While only the mode bits are altered, other parts of the file mode
62 takes an absolute (octal) or symbolic value, as described in
65 and returns a pointer to mode values to be supplied to
67 Because some of the symbolic values are relative to the file
72 If this occurs, the file creation mask will be restored before
75 If the calling program changes the value of its file creation mask
79 must be called again if
81 is to modify future file modes correctly.
85 is invalid or if memory cannot be allocated for the return value,
90 The value returned from
94 and should be returned to the system with
96 when the program is done with it, generally after a call to
102 may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library
115 functions first appeared in