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

[Pavel Emelyanov]

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 <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>