From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devpts: change the default value of devpts mode to 0620
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:50:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090515105032.167eeb66@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0D2438.7020509@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Fri, 15 May 2009 16:13:44 +0800
Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> The value of devpts mode is usually set to 620 in file
> /etc/fstab like this:
>
> $grep devpts /etc/fstab
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>
> But the default mode value of devpts is 0600. Why not
> set it to 0620? This patch change it 0620.
NAK
The default is effectively ABI so you are changing it for people using
the 0600 default and doing nothing at all useful for those with 0620
defaults in their mount tab (which btw is distro dependant policy)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-15 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-15 5:20 [PATCH] devpts: fix to set default values of mount options Wei Yongjun
2009-05-15 5:25 ` [PATCHv2] " Wei Yongjun
2009-05-15 8:13 ` [PATCH] devpts: change the default value of devpts mode to 0620 Wei Yongjun
2009-05-15 9:50 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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