jffs_mknod: bogus imode when creating sockets

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Sep 7 05:44:59 EDT 2000


dvrabel at arcom.co.uk said:
>  Never mind.  Thinking about it some more (should do this more often).
>  I've realized something else is not setting the mode correctly for
> sockets (I'm sure it shouldn't be 140755 but 6).  Hmmm... shouldn't
> the socket check be in there anyway?

No, 140755 is correct for a rwxr-xr-x socket. And yes, the socket check 
should be there, but it's harmless as it doesn't affect the operation, only 
makes it whinge when it shouldn't. You're not actually getting any 
behavioural problems, are you?

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dwmw2




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