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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:55:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: msdosfs mask?
Message-ID:  <20031006234937.C4915@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031006173858.Y8422@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20031005112505.J474@root.org> <20031006173858.Y8422@gamplex.bde.org>

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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 Perhaps your mount_msdosfs binary is out of date.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



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