Re: msdosfs mask?

From: Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:55:26 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > In the past, msdosfs has taken its permissions from the mountpoint.
> > Recently I noticed that this still works for files in the root directory
> > but subdirectories are all chmod 000.  Has anyone else seen this?  Adding
> > the -m=755 flag for instance does work for the files in the top of the
> > mountpoint (i.e. command.com) but not subdirectories, which are still 000.
> > What's going on?
>
> Perhaps your mount_msdosfs binary is out of date.  Rev.1.25 of
> mount_msdosfs.c is required to keep up with corresponding kernel
> changes.  It passes a separate mask for directories.

Thanks!  That was it.

-Nate
Received on Mon Oct 06 2003 - 21:55:24 UTC

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