Re: FW: FW: mq_open

[Andi Kleen]

"Berger, Lutz (External)" <Lutz.Berger.External@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>  
> Hello gentleman,
>
> we have a problem with 
> mq_open, shm_open and sem_open
>
> As stated in the manpage of "open(2)",  the
>   permissions of the created file are (mode & ~umask).
>
> But what is the use of the mode parameter, it it is not used like the programmers intention?
> On HP Unix or TRU64 the mode parameter is not modified.
>
> Could you please check, if this is a bug or a faulty system design on linux? 

Whatever it is -- it would be dangerous to change because suddenly
ignoring umask could add security problems to existing software.

-Andi

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