[linux-cifs-client] unable to chmod

Juran David ext-david.juran at nokia.com
Wed Jan 31 19:09:34 GMT 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:58 -0800, ext Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, that would be great (-: 

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