From b0286acd52b653f996bdcfbc11694c9ccfbcd190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Sumners <james.sumners@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:59:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update umask for clarity

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14170
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14169
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
---
 doc/api/process.md | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/api/process.md b/doc/api/process.md
index ac83a09de0ebc7..0e8c17af7e605c 100644
--- a/doc/api/process.md
+++ b/doc/api/process.md
@@ -1654,9 +1654,9 @@ added: v0.1.19
 * `mask` {number}
 
 The `process.umask()` method sets or returns the Node.js process's file mode
-creation mask. Child processes inherit the mask from the parent process. The old
-mask is return if the `mask` argument is given, otherwise returns the current
-mask.
+creation mask. Child processes inherit the mask from the parent process. Invoked
+without an argument, the current mask is returned, otherwise the umask is set to
+the argument value and the previous mask is returned.
 
 ```js
 const newmask = 0o022;