Re: [PATCH] fchmodat, lchmod: port to buggy Linux filesystems

[Paul Eggert]

On 3/10/20 12:30 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

Is the concern here that
you would get a different mode from the requested one if you use
umask+mknod and not mknod+some form of chmod?

Yes. See:

https://bugs.gnu.org/14371