Re: [2.2.13] FAT filesystems: separate umask for directories

[Leos Bitto]

On 3 Jan 2000, Florian Weimer wrote:

> The following patch allows setting a different umask for directories
> on FAT filesystems.  This is useful if you want the files to be of
> mode 0644, while the directories should be 0755.  The patch is
> completely nonintrusive, i.e. only if the new `dir_umask' mount option
> is specified, something happens.

If everything you need is to get files 0644 and directories 0755, 
use the "noexec" option. No need to hack the kernel every time you
need to get your job done. :)

Leos