Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Bug in NFS - should init be allowed to set umask???

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 14 Jul 2001 08:28:42 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Neil Brown wrote:

> > It is. Ability to connect == write permissions on AF_UNIX socket. So
> > umask matters.
>
> I certainly appreciate that permissions on an AF_UNIX socket matter,
> but wondered why they were set to "sock->inode->i_mode" rather than
> simply 0666. Maybe - I thought - sock->inode->i_mode already has the
> umask applied in some way, and so re-appling it was not necessary.
> Where-from comes the mode that is in sock->inode->i_mode ?

net/socket.c::sock_alloc().

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