Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267455AbUIPEI4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:08:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267457AbUIPEI4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:08:56 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:49563 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267455AbUIPEIy (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:08:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:08:21 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Robert Love , Tim Hockin , Kay Sievers , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer Message-ID: <20040916040820.GA5395@kroah.com> References: <20040915203133.GA18812@hockin.org> <1095280414.23385.108.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20040915204754.GA19625@hockin.org> <1095281358.23385.109.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20040915205643.GA19875@hockin.org> <20040915212322.GB25840@kroah.com> <1095283589.23385.117.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20040915213419.GA21899@hockin.org> <1095284320.23385.123.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20040916012104.GA21832@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040916012104.GA21832@MAIL.13thfloor.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 27 On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:21:04AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:38:39PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:34 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > > > > > It's a can of worms, is what it is. And I'm not sure what a good fix > > > would be. Would it just be enough to send a generic "mount-table changed" > > > event, and let userspace figure out the rest? > > > > "Can of worms" is a tough description for something that there is no > > practical security issue for, just a lot of hand waving. No one even > > uses name spaces. > > ah, sorry, that is wrong, we (linux-vserver) > _do_ use namespaces extensively, and probably > other 'jail' solutions will use it too ... Great. So, how do you handle the /sbin/hotplug call today? How would you want to handle this kevent notifier? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/