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...dle the UMASK from /etc/default/login with sscanf(3C); It just so happens that I'm using gcc-3.3.1, and I can't say this is definitely an OS or libC or compiler issue. However, the 32 bit binary works, and the 64 bit binary SIGBUSes. Here is a demo that will work whether you are YASSP/JASS hardenened or whatever (because the umask is hard-coded instead of read from /etc/default/login). ---cut--- #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> int main (){ char var[4] = "777\0"; mode_t mask; printf("Test case: UMASK=%s in /etc/default/login...