bstark@siemens-psc.com (Brian Stark) writes:
> To further complicate this, I have noticed that this only happens when
> using "mkdir -p" to create directories on my /seagate file system, 

The same thing happens if you try to untar to an MSDOS fs.  Its just
the unix utility's way of telling you that the fs is too stupid to
implement the file-mode bits correctly.

I'm not sure what can be done without special info about the msdos fs
wired into each unix command.

-wolfgang
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