Umask question

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:10 -0600, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
>  > Hi
> > 
> > if I issue the ommand umask I get a value of 0022. I thought umask
> > values were 022, what's the extra digit for?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Dan
> By convention, octal numbers have a leading zero.  This is a
> carry over from the C programming language.
> 
> Bob
> 
I am not sure that is true. There is a forth (the first on in the
output) that refers to SUID, GUID and stcky bit,
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