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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] procfs: expose umask in stat and status
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On 05/05/2012 10:50 AM, Pierre Carrier wrote:
> A new stat field uses decimal, contains umask or -ENOENT if !task->fs.

How is it useful to display numeric -ENOENT in a /proc file?

> A new status line is displayed if task->fs, and uses octal.

So sometimes "Umask:" is displayed, sometimes not...