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From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: msdosfs mask?
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > In the past, msdosfs has taken its permissions from the mountpoint.
> > Recently I noticed that this still works for files in the root directory
> > but subdirectories are all chmod 000.  Has anyone else seen this?  Adding
> > the -m=755 flag for instance does work for the files in the top of the
> > mountpoint (i.e. command.com) but not subdirectories, which are still 000.
> > What's going on?
>
> Perhaps your mount_msdosfs binary is out of date.  Rev.1.25 of
> mount_msdosfs.c is required to keep up with corresponding kernel
> changes.  It passes a separate mask for directories.

Thanks!  That was it.

-Nate