os.MkDir and os.MkDirAll permission value?

Question

I\'m trying to create a log file at the start of my program.

I need to check if a \"/log\" directory exists if it doesn\'t create the directory then move on to creat

Answer 1

You can reset the umask to 0. I would call this as the first thing in my main file

syscall.Umask(0)

Example

_ = os.MkdirAll("/tmp/dirs/1", 0664)
syscall.Umask(0)
_ = os.MkdirAll("/tmp/dirs/2", 0664)

Result

/tmp/dirs$ stat -c '%A %a %n' *
drw-r--r-- 644 1
drw-rw-r-- 664 2