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open.2: Minor wording fixes 

Add some paragraph breaks to the discussion of 'mode' to make
the details a bit easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2020-07-24 13:16:16 +02:00
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@ -303,12 +303,16 @@ nor
is specified, then
.I mode
is ignored.
.IP
The effective mode is modified by the process's
.I umask
in the usual way: in the absence of a default ACL, the mode of the
created file is
.IR "(mode\ &\ ~umask)" .
Note that this mode applies only to future accesses of the
.IP
Note that
.I mode
applies only to future accesses of the
newly created file; the
.BR open ()
call that creates a read-only file may well return a read/write