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Re: SPEC failures



On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:30:46 -0500, 
Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com> wrote:
>Andrew had the approach of setting the umask of the nfsd process to 0 at
>startup, there was some other reason for this not being popular.

It set _all_ kernel thread umasks to 000, opening quite a few security
loopholes.