Bug#306076: mkdir, mkfifo, mknod permissions problem

[Michael Stone]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 07:12:03PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
  $ umask 077
  $ mkdir -m =+rwx d
  $ ls -ld d
  drwxrwxrwx  2 eggert eggert 4096 Apr 23 18:51 d
I don't get it -- where is the bug? The documentation specifically says
that it ignores the umask--otherwise the right thing to do would be to
drop -m altogether because it would be fairly useless.
Mike Stone
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