Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261609AbVD0Pdf (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:33:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261617AbVD0Pd3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:33:29 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:2974 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261609AbVD0PdW (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:33:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:33:20 +0200 From: Martin Mares To: Miklos Szeredi 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts Message-ID: <20050427153320.GA19065@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <20050426094727.GA30379@infradead.org> <20050426131943.GC2226@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20050426201411.GA20109@elf.ucw.cz> <20050427092450.GB1819@elf.ucw.cz> <20050427143126.GB1957@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 22 Hello! > It is not there for the purpose of protecting user's data. Rather for > protecting other users (including root) from unknowingly entering the > FUSE directory and thus leaking otherwise inaccessible information > (exact file operations performed) to the mount owner. Huh? Do you really suppose that there could be anything secret in the operations somebody else is performing on your files? I still don't see any real problem this check could ever solve. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth God is real, unless declared integer. - 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/