Hello! This patch adds support for the "mode" parameter in ramfs. This parameter only affects one inode - the top-level directory (since you can specify mode in open() and mkdir() for everything else) and thus eliminates the race condition between "mount" and "chmod" by eliminating the need to use "chmod". Like other filesystems, the "mode" is parsed as an octal number. It is now possible to put the following line in /etc/fstab: none /tmp ramfs mode=1777 0 0 but please make sure that untrusted users cannot kill your system by creating huge files in /tmp! The patch is also available online at http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/root_mode.diff Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
