Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:47:54 -0700
From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
       akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:33:34PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > In which namespace?  All of them?  Is that an information leak that might
> > be hazardous (I'm bad with security stuff).
> 
> You can only see your own namespace.  So e.g. /proc/mtab is your name
> space's mount table and you can rescan that when receiving the mount
> signal.

> So there is no information leak.

Are you not sending it with some specific device as the source?  Or is it
just coming from some abstract root kobject?
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