Para começar - na página do manual OPEN (2) ( man -S2 open
):
O_CREAT If the file does not exist it will be created. The owner (user ID) of the file is set to the effective user ID of the process. The group ownership (group ID) is set either to the effective group ID of the process or to the group ID of the parent direc‐ tory (depending on filesystem type and mount options, and the mode of the parent directory, see the mount options bsdgroups and sysvgroups described in mount(8)). mode specifies the permissions to use in case a new file is cre‐ ated. This argument must be supplied when O_CREAT is specified in flags; if O_CREAT is not specified, then mode is ignored. The effective permissions are modified by the process's umask in the usual way: The permissions of the created file are (mode & ~umask). Note that this mode applies only to future accesses of the newly created file; the open() call that creates a read-only file may well return a read/write file descriptor.
Se você usar o comando strace
a touch
para criar um novo arquivo, verá o modo passado para open()
é 0666 (ou seja, -rw-rw-rw-
). A máscara de umask será aplicada a esse modo.
$ strace -e open touch my-new-file
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
open("my-new-file", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK, 0666) = 3
+++ exited with 0 +++
$