Randy's Stupid Question of the day

[Randy Rathbun]

Okay, I give.

How in the world does umask work? I am trying to change it to
rwxr-xr-x. If it is 022, it is rw-r--r--. Okay, *that* makes total
sense... ahem. 

And then setting it to 220 results in r--r--rw. And even stranger stuff
starts if I go to other numbers. 

Anyone care to explain this?

Randy Rathbun
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