On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:48:58PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Ah, OK. Well, that's what fuse would do with the above change. So > you are basically saying, the change is OK, but we want proper > unprivileged mounts first. Yes, that and that it should be a mount flag, not a file_system_type flag. > I'm sure we don't want it by default. > > For example if user bind mounts / onto /home/user/myroot (with 'nodev' > of couse), we still don't want mknod to work on that mount, for > obvious reasons. True, we'll have to deny it if there is any non-privilegued mount of the backing device possible. At this point it's getting rather nasty and I wonder whether it's really worth it.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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