[linux-cifs-client] unable to chmod

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jan 31 18:58:54 GMT 2007


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:51:58PM +0200, Juran David wrote:
> 
> I see... But isn't that function supposed to be covered by the 'security
> mask' parameter? As I see it, the drawback of having the 'create mask'
> as a "generic" mask is that one might want to have a certain default
> mode for newly created files, but still allow users to change to
> "higher" permissions on files once they are created. 

Hmmmm - yep ok, that's a bug. I'll post a patch.

Jeremy


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