doc: update umask for clarity

PR-URL: #14170 Fixes: #14169 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
nodejs · Aug 16, 2017 · 98466c5 · 98466c5
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@@ -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;