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> > Is it really called mode?
> 
> Yes. The parameter is "mode_t mode".
> 
> > I call it permissions.
> 
> So do I. But mode & permissions are interchangeable.

Since fchmod is short for "file change mode" and since the mode bits
include such bits as file type and setuid/setgid functionality, "mode"
is more correct than "permissions".  It just turns out that the only
mode bits you can change happen to be the permission bits.