[FIX] Re: symlink permissions

Tue Dec 7 10:00:40 UTC 2004

Hello Keith and Andrew,

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 09:19, Keith Young wrote:
> When CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL is not defined, ext3_init_acl() is an
> inline function in fs/ext3/acl.h which doesn't check if a file is a
> symlink before applying umask.

That's a bug, indeed. Thanks for reporting; a fix is attached.

Andrew, could you please push this to Linus? Thanks!

Cheers,
-- 
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen at suse.de>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH
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