question for the "base gurus"

Wed Jan 25 13:40:09 UTC 2017

On Tuesday January 24 2017 19:14:28 Brandon Allbery wrote:

>> 0775 (00000001:11111101) turning into 0255 (0000000:10101101), there's no
>> logical explanation (involving umask()) for that, is there?

I messed up a bit: I'm getting a 0225 permission, not 255. IOW, the user and group read+write permissions are being filtered out.
That sounds like it could make more sense, but why?!

R.