On Feb 9 2007 15:22, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:53:44 -0800
>Dave Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This is the core of the read-only bind mount patch set.
>
>Who wants read-only bind mounts, and for what reason?
And another case could be, that some application modifies ~/.xyz, but the user
(with root's help) does not want that:
mount --bind -r ~/.xyz ~/.xyz
chmoding out the w bits does not always work, as programs might tamper with the
permissions of ~/.xyz itself... so a ro mount seems to be best.
Jan
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