On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Karel Zak wrote: > I don't understand what do you want to fix by this patch. Please, > try to describe the problem. > > We have to overwrite the umask, because default for mount(2) is the > umask of the current process. The mount & umount are suid and I don't > think we want to allow non-root users to control umask for mounted > filesystems (when umask= is not defined in fstab together with > user/users option). the umask() force there breaks the umask= option in /etc/fstab ... for full info/test case/etc... see this bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/93671 perhaps we took the wrong approach in Gentoo, but there is a bug here ;) maybe need to load the umask option from user/fstab and then clear explicit bits based on the user doing the mount ... -mike
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