I forgot to mention that on another machine running the same kernel version with the same (as close as a UP machine can be to SMP) kernel configuration the umask is honoured properly on ext3 filesystem.-
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
Hi Hugh,
I think I may have found a bug --- on one of my machines the umask value is ignored by ext3 (but honoured on tmpfs) for mkdir system call:
$ cd /tmp
$ df -T .
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdf1 ext3 189238556 155721568 23749068 87% /
$ rmdir ok ; mkdir ok ; ls -ld ok
rmdir: ok: No such file or directory
drwxrwxrwx 2 tigran tigran 4096 Jan 14 20:36 ok/
$ umask
0022
$ cd /dev/shm
$ df -T .
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs tmpfs 517988 0 517988 0% /dev/shm
$ rmdir ok ; mkdir ok ; ls -ld ok
rmdir: ok: No such file or directory
drwxr-xr-x 2 tigran tigran 40 Jan 14 20:36 ok/
$ uname -a
Linux ws 2.6.19.1 #6 SMP Sun Jan 14 20:03:30 GMT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ grep -i acl /usr/src/linux/.config
# CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL is not set
# CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL is not set
As you see, ACL is not configured in, and neither are extended attributes:
$ grep -i xattr /usr/src/linux/.config
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR is not set
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR is not set
So, this is something fs-specific. What do you think?
Kind regards
Tigran