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Description of problem:
Redhat 7.0/7.1  in mount versions: 2.10r-5 and 2.11b-3 repectively, mount
doesn't honor the mode option. however, it does honor the umask option.
either the mode option needs to be fixed, or removed from the command and
man pages.
Tested in Redhat 7.0/7.1 with the mount versions specified.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.mount /dev/fd0 -o mode=111 /mnt/floppy
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  tried with vfat disks only. ls -l /mnt/floppy shows all
files have mode 755  no matter what mode is specified.

Additional info:

workaround, use the umask option for mount.
this problem is also present in autofs. but i suspect that fixing mount
would fix autofs.