On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 18:12 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > 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? Default umask would probably be even better than a hardcoded one. Just tried latest git, seems to still get 1777 permissions. > 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 guys, rock on! :) -- 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
