Re: [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount

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On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:39:19PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
> >
> > The owner doesn't need sysadmin capabilities to call umount().
> >
> > Similar behavior as umount(8) on mounts having "user=UID" option in
> > /etc/mtab.  The difference is that umount also checks /etc/fstab,
> > presumably to exclude another mount on the same mountpoint.
> >
> 
> bool in the kernel?

It's there already...

> int would be much more recognizable as this is not C++
> 
> Or do you have place to convert the rest of the kernel that is using
> int to return a true/false value to bool?

It's already underway:
	$ git log | grep bool | wc -l
	123

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