Re: [bugzilla-daemon@gentoo.org: [Bug 93671] mount uses wrong default umask for fat filesystem]

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> ------- Additional Comments From stian@xxxxxxxx  2005-06-26 16:36 PDT -------
> This is not a mount bug, but a kernel-bug. umask=nnn is passed along other
> user-flags to the mount syscall as a string, and the kernel-filesystem driver
> parses the string and denies the syscall if a syntax-error occures. Not all
> filesystems supports umask, so umask is not sent unless spesified. If the mount
> man-page claims that umask is defaulted to the current shell umask setting, the
> kernel-driver needs to take this into account when umask isn't found in the
> string it receives from user-space. Just my 5 cent about this bug

Look util-linux-2.12q... hm, mount command is reseting the umask in main().
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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