Re: [2.6-GIT] NTFS: Release 2.1.24.

[Anton Altaparmakov]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:18:01 +0100 (BST), Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > This is the next NTFS update containing a ton of bug fixes several of 
> > which fix bugs people actually hit in the big bad world...
> > 
> > Please apply.  Thanks!
> > 
> > I am sending the changesets as actual patches generated using git 
> > format-patch for non-git users in follow up emails (in reply to this one).
> 
> BTW Anton, while looking for the best permission masks to be used when
> mounting my NTFS paritions, I spotted what I think is a bug, or at
> least an inconsistency between the way all fs drivers I use handle
> umasks & friends, and the way NTFS does it. Basically, all the other
> fs drivers take an octal representation of the masks. NTFS, instead,
> seems to use _decimal_

NTFS takes any.  It is happy with octal, decimal, and hex.  The ntfs 
driver uses linux/lib/vsprintf.c::simple_strtoul() with a zero base which 
autodetects which base to use so if you use umask=0222 it will take this 
as octal and if you use umask=222 it will take this as decimal and if you 
use 0x222 it will take this as decimal.

I do not see what is wrong with that.  It behaves exactly like I would 
expect it to.  Maybe I have strange expectations?  (-;

Best regards,

	Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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