mkdir -m option POSIX compliance

2006-10-10 Thread Alex Unleashed
Hi all, "mkdir -m mode -p /some/directory" calls chmod() on /some/directory even if it already exists, effectively changing the mode. POSIX specifies that this mode may only be applied to newly created directories. Patch attached. Please look at the URLs referenced in the patch for further inform

devfs deadlock

2006-08-18 Thread Alex Unleashed
Hello, Before anything else I'd like to say I'm working on a SoC project for Gentoo for which I have to port a sandbox-like application wrapper (in userspace) to FreeBSD, which deals with the building and installing of software so that nothing gets screwed in the filesystem. It's finished, but un