![]() | |||||||||||||
Messages in this thread |
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: [...] > > 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? (-; At least chmod(1) takes /only/ octal, so 666 isn't the number of the beast, but plain rw for everybody ;-) I think this should be consistent with that. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
| Last update: 2005-09-12 07:12 [from the cache] ©2003-2008 | |||||||||||||