From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] umask.2, open.2, mknod.2, mkdir.2: Explain what default acls do Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:39:43 +0200 Message-ID: <5536450F.3050806@gmail.com> References: <3fa52386efe0d027409e803629c6b751e0b7b602.1428946673.git.andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3fa52386efe0d027409e803629c6b751e0b7b602.1428946673.git.andreas.gruenbacher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andreas Gruenbacher Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Andreas Gruenbacher List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 > --- > 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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html