Re: [PATCH 2/2] umask.2, open.2, mknod.2, mkdir.2: Explain what default acls do

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Andreas,

I applied, but fixed a little, including one important detail below.

On 04/13/2015 07:38 PM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Explain the effect that default acls have (instead of the umask) in umask.2.
> Mention that default acls can have an affect in open.2, mknod.2, and mkdir.2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  man2/mkdir.2 |  5 ++---
>  man2/mknod.2 |  5 +++--
>  man2/open.2  |  3 ++-
>  man2/umask.2 | 11 +++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/mkdir.2 b/man2/mkdir.2
> index 41fad55..42fc26b 100644
> --- a/man2/mkdir.2
> +++ b/man2/mkdir.2
> @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ The argument
>  specifies the permissions to use.
>  It is modified by the process's
>  .I umask
> -in the usual way: the permissions of the created directory are
> +in the usual way: in the absence of a default acl, the permissions of the
> +created directory are
>  .RI ( mode " & ~" umask " & 0777)."
>  Other mode bits of the created directory depend on the operating system.
>  For Linux, see below.
> @@ -212,8 +213,6 @@ POSIX.1-2008.
>  Under Linux, apart from the permission bits, only the
>  .B S_ISVTX
>  mode bit is honored.
> -That is, under Linux the created directory actually gets mode
> -.RI ( mode " & ~" umask " & 01777)."

You dropped a "1" from the expression here. I restored it.

Thanks for the patch!

Cheers,

Michael

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