[PVFS2-developers] pvfs2-mkdir annoyance

[Neill Miller]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Nathan Poznick wrote:

> PVFS_permissions PVFS_permissions_from_umask(int isdir);

Since we already have a method like this on the kernel side, I'd rather 
see the pvfs2_translate_mode method moved into pvfs2-utils and just call 
it with the mode you're looking for (i.e. 777 & ~umask() for dirs and 666 
& ~umask() for files).  It's cleaner and avoids the 'isdir' flag.

-Neill.