On Thursday, October 29, 2009, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:02:50PM +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote: >> >> I've been using the devtmpfs patch for 2.6.31 and recently mainline >> 2.6.32-rc5. I've noticed that /dev now have default tmpfs permissions, >> i.e. 1777. >> >> One can chmod the directory, but would it not make sense to use a more >> less permissive mode (e.g. 0755) by default? Yeah, sounds good. > I think the patch sent by Kay to the linux-kernel mailing list yesterday > will solve this problem. It uses the default umask instead. > > Can you test it out to verify this? I'll prepare a patch to fix that, we need to pass "mode=0755" to the mount command, to set the tmpfs root directory mode. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
