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Date:      Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:29:49 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: msdosfs borked 
Message-ID:  <21757.1102501789@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:09:19 %2B1100." <20041208100919.GA18279@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> 

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In message <20041208100919.GA18279@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>, Tim Robbins wri
tes:
>On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:48:11AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <9EF07AD4-48D0-11D9-BD23-000D93C47836@xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar 
>> writes:
>> >Permissions seems to have gone out to lunch...
>> 
>> Hmm, do you know what kind of filesystem it is ?  FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 ?
>
>This kind of thing is symptomatic of mount arguments not being passed
>correctly and ending up as zero. I've seen it happen in the past when the
>layout of struct msdosfs_args changed.

yes indeed, (this is, btw, one of the things nmount hopefully will
improve once we use it all the way from userland)

Only trouble is I don't see the zero perms here...

+ ls -l /mnt
+ head -4
total 1347
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    6260 Sep 30  1993 ansi.sy_
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    7467 Sep 30  1993 append.ex_
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   11208 Sep 30  1993 attrib.exe


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