Bug 89422

Summary: mkfifo sometimes fails to correctly set permissions
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Chad Talbott <chadt>
Component: fileutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Chad Talbott 2003-04-22 20:16:58 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The permission that are set on a newly mkfifo'd fifo are incorrect in cases
where the permissions are set from the default user mask.  For example:

$ umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
$ mkfifo -m go=u regular_fifo
$ ls -l regular_fifo 
prw-rw-r--    1 root     root            0 Apr 22 13:07 regular_fifo

The correct permissions are prw-rw-rw-

I will attach a patch that corrects the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fileutils-4.1-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
$ mkfifo -m go=u regular_fifo

Actual Results:  $ ls -l regular_fifo 
prw-rw-r--    1 root     root            0 Apr 22 13:07 regular_fifo


Expected Results:  
The correct permissions are prw-rw-rw-


Additional info:
Comment 1 Chad Talbott 2003-04-22 20:19:29 UTC 
Created attachment 91231 [details]
Patch to modechange.c
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2003-04-24 14:32:50 UTC 
Thanks.
Comment 3 Chad Talbott 2003-04-24 21:36:24 UTC 
FWIW: Looks like this fix has appeared in the latest FSF version of fileutils
(now coreutils).