Only raw octal modes are supported right now. This patch also changes mode_t from 32-bit to 16-bit to match the on-disk type used by Ext2FS. I also ran into EPERM being errno=0 which was confusing, so I inserted an ESUCCESS in its place.
This is no longer needed as the Kernel can stand on its own legs now and there won't be any conflict with host system data types.