Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Bug in NFS - should init be allowed to set umask???

[Alexander Viro]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Neil Brown wrote:

> > It is. Ability to connect == write permissions on AF_UNIX socket. So
> > umask matters.
> 
> I certainly appreciate that permissions on an AF_UNIX socket matter,
> but wondered why they were set to "sock->inode->i_mode" rather than
> simply 0666.  Maybe - I thought - sock->inode->i_mode already has the
> umask applied in some way, and so re-appling it was not necessary.
> Where-from comes the mode that is in sock->inode->i_mode ?

net/socket.c::sock_alloc().