From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:12:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:12:28 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:38184 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:12:20 -0400 From: Alan Cox Message-Id: <200107131212.f6DCC0v16274@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Bug in NFS - should umask be allowed to set umask??? To: neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:12:00 -0400 (EDT) Cc: abramo@alsa-project.org (Abramo Bagnara), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel), nfs-devel@linux.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <15182.58236.133661.221154@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> from "Neil Brown" at Jul 13, 2001 10:03:08 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 1/ Claim that redhat is broken. Leave them to fix SysVinit. > 2/ Have nfsd over-write the umask setting that /sbin/init imposed. > This is effectively what your patch does. > 3/ Decide that it is inappropriate for nfsd to share the current->fs > fs_struct with init. Unfortunately this means changing or > replacing daemonize(). #3 seems right. Of course its not clear whose fs struct should be shared