On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 06:57:36PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > O_NOUMASK seems potentially useful to support implementation of umask > entirely in userspace, which also addresses thread-safety. A program > could read its process umask out at startup, handle umask entirely in > userspace (including for threads), and only interact with the system > umask after fork and before exec.
I had a look at O_NOUMASK and there are a few problems: It's relatively easy to implement for open(2). A few filesystems implement their own open so I had to go into those filesystems and modify how they handle current_umask too. And FUSE support is tricky so I passed on that. The real problem is that mkdir/mkdirat/mknod/mknodat are affected by umask, but there is no convenient flags parameter to pass the O_NOUMASK flag. So I think the patch only half-solves the problem. I have a patch which needs a bit more testing, which I can post if you think that's helpful, but I don't think it would be acceptable in its current state. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
