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os: Root.Mkdir creates directories with zero permissions on OpenBSD #73559

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Go version

go version go1.24.2 openbsd/amd64

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

AR='ar'
CC='clang'
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CXX='clang++'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GO111MODULE=''
GOAMD64='v1'
GOARCH='amd64'
GOAUTH='netrc'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/jrick/.cache/go-build'
GOCACHEPROG=''
GODEBUG=''
GOENV='/home/jrick/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFIPS140='off'
GOFLAGS=''
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build3747953386=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='openbsd'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMOD='/dev/null'
GOMODCACHE='/home/jrick/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='openbsd'
GOPATH='/home/jrick/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/home/jrick/src/go'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/home/jrick/.config/go/telemetry'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='local'
GOTOOLDIR='/home/jrick/src/go/pkg/tool/openbsd_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.24.2'
GOWORK=''
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'

What did you do?

Test program:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
)

func main() {
	rootPath, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "root")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println("tmp path", rootPath)

	r, err := os.OpenRoot(rootPath)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	err = r.Mkdir("d", 0o777)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	if st, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(r.Name(), "d")); err == nil {
		fmt.Printf("%q mode %#o\n", st.Name(), st.Mode())
	}

	_, err = r.OpenRoot("d")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

What did you see happen?

On OpenBSD, os.Root.Mkdir creates a directory with perm mode 0o000:

$ go run .
tmp path /tmp/root2057846600
"d" mode 020000000000
panic: openat d: permission denied

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
	/home/jrick/hack/root-mkdir/a.go:32 +0x249
exit status 2
$ ls -l /tmp/root2057846600
total 4
d---------  2 jrick  wheel  512 Apr 30 17:01 d/

It works as expected on Linux:

$ go run .
tmp path /tmp/root3220349710
"d" mode 020000000755
$ echo $?
0
$ ls -l /tmp/root3220349710
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 jrick users 2 Apr 30 17:04 d/

What did you expect to see?

os.Root.Mkdir creating a directory with the proper permissions.

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