On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Anton Altaparmakov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> [...]
> > > BTW Anton, while looking for the best permission masks to be used when
> > > mounting my NTFS paritions, I spotted what I think is a bug, or at
> > > least an inconsistency between the way all fs drivers I use handle
> > > umasks & friends, and the way NTFS does it. Basically, all the other
> > > fs drivers take an octal representation of the masks. NTFS, instead,
> > > seems to use _decimal_
>
> > NTFS takes any. It is happy with octal, decimal, and hex. The ntfs
> > driver uses linux/lib/vsprintf.c::simple_strtoul() with a zero base which
> > autodetects which base to use so if you use umask=0222 it will take this
> > as octal and if you use umask=222 it will take this as decimal and if you
> > use 0x222 it will take this as decimal.
>
> > I do not see what is wrong with that. It behaves exactly like I would
> > expect it to. Maybe I have strange expectations? (-;
>
> At least chmod(1) takes /only/ octal, so 666 isn't the number of the beast,
> but plain rw for everybody ;-)
Ah, oops. I don't think I ever noticed that. I always have given it
0xyz, i.e. "proper" octal.
> I think this should be consistent with that.
Yes, I fully agree. It should be consistent. I will patch ntfs and send
it to Linus for 2.6.14.
Thanks to both of you for pointing this out.
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
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