2009/174 VERY SHORT TIMEOUT smbfs mount permissions

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:58:11PM -0400, Gordon Ross wrote:
> I forgot to answer the "why 'x' perms?" part (for files).
> Two reasons:  (1) to avoid surprise - what you normally see now
> under an smbfs mount is both files and directories are 755, and
> (2) if you want to be able to run anything out of smbfs, you'll
> need execute permission, same as with filesystems like pcfs.

Ah, I figured, but wasn't sure.

Also, why should dirperms default to 755 instead of 700?