Bug 583554 - [FEAT] mknod-mode command is needed to set mode explicitly
Summary: [FEAT] mknod-mode command is needed to set mode explicitly
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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Reported: 2010-04-19 05:34 UTC by Yufang Zhang
Modified: 2010-05-21 00:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-04-19 19:57:04 UTC
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Description Yufang Zhang 2010-04-19 05:34:58 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently, mode is affected by umask when we create a new device file via mknod(mknod-b, mknod-c or mkfifo). Thus the mode we set in mknod is not the real mode of the device file. So we need a mknod-mode command, by which the mode we set is not affected by umask. 

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major: 1
minor: 0
release: 85
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Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-04-19 19:57:04 UTC
I've decided not to do this.  The reason is that 'mknod-mode' would
be needlessly inconsistent with 'mkdir-mode'.  The latter is affected
by umask.

However, I have updated the documentation to note the effects of
umask and how to avoid them:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=c2a8efc548d6f997049cbb3d63bab360b0d946b6

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-04-20 19:11:55 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.3-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.3-1.el5

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-04-20 22:25:24 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.3-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.3-1.fc13

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-04-21 12:42:14 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.3-1.fc12.6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.3-1.fc12.6

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-05-21 00:31:06 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.3-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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