Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261704AbVD0O4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261700AbVD0O4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:56:18 -0400 Received: from rev.193.226.232.93.euroweb.hu ([193.226.232.93]:52644 "EHLO dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261694AbVD0O4D (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:56:03 -0400 To: miklos@szeredi.hu CC: jamie@shareable.org, pavel@suse.cz, hch@infradead.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, 7eggert@gmx.de, bulb@ucw.cz, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org In-reply-to: (message from Miklos Szeredi on Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:46:24 +0200) Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts References: <20050426093628.GA30208@infradead.org> <20050426094727.GA30379@infradead.org> <20050426131943.GC2226@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20050426201411.GA20109@elf.ucw.cz> <20050427092450.GB1819@elf.ucw.cz> <20050427143126.GB1957@mail.shareable.org> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:55:33 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 18 > > Why, exactly, is this check in the kernel and not the FUSE daemon? > > > > Someone said the FUSE daemon knows which user is making filesystem > > requests, and can therefore do this. Is it true? > > Yes. > > The check is in the kernel, because otherwise it couldn't be enforced. I'm going to compile a fuse-user-mount FAQ. This is about the 4th time I answer this question in this thread :) Miklos - 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/