[PVFS2-developers] pvfs2-mkdir annoyance

[Neill Miller]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Nathan Poznick wrote:

> Thus spake Neill Miller:
> > 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.
> 
> Ok, attached is a patch which does this sort of thing.  How's this look?

Hey Nathan,

It looks ok and will go in in some form, but let's talk on IRC next week 
to get the details down.

-Neill.