Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 1/1] fuse-add-rootmode-mount-option

[Goswin v. B. <gos...@we...>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 05:37:21PM -0700, Ashish Samant wrote:
> This patch adds the rootmode=M option to the mount options in fuse library. FUSE
> user library extracts the octal argument (M) and passes it to the kernel module
> to set the file permission for root of the mounted filesystem.

Why is this patch needed? Isn't the mode for the root of the
filesystem determined by a getattr("/") callback?

MfG
	Goswin