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>> > Synopsis: Permission for .. in NFS mounts is somewhat non-intuitive

> Ah, the mountpoint permission problem.  It's a well-known problem, and
> not only NFS is affected. [...]
>
> We should document that mount points will be best with permission 555
> or something like that (the actual permissions are always shadowed
> later), and close the PR.

Perhaps make mount(8) warn if the permissions of a mount point
are unreasonable?  Nice both for new sysadmins and old farts
who think they can't make such mistakes.

    if ((mount_point_stat.st_mode & 0555) != 0555)
	warn("rtfm \"man 8 mount\"");
									++sja