> Also, why should dirperms default to 755 instead of 700? They're not. The default dirperms are derived from whatever turns out to be the fileperms setting, plus X bits. i.e. if the user specifies fileperms=640, the default dirperms will be 750. If they don't specify either one, the default dirperms will be 700.
Again, that part of the functionality is not changed by this proposal.