Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932632AbVJEOfF (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:35:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932634AbVJEOfE (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:35:04 -0400 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:10252 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932632AbVJEOfD (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:35:03 -0400 To: 7eggert@gmx.de Cc: Marc Perkel , Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4U0XH-3Gp-39@gated-at.bofh.it> From: Nix X-Emacs: a real time environment for simulating molasses-based life forms. Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:34:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Bodo Eggert's message of "4 Oct 2005 23:04:46 +0100") Message-ID: <87k6gsjalu.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 21 On 4 Oct 2005, Bodo Eggert stated: > BTW: YANI: That about a tmpfs where all-numerical entries can only be > created by the corresponding UID? This would provide a secure, private > tmp directory to each user without the possibility of races and denial-of- > service attacks. Maybe it should be controlled by a mount flag. Wouldn't it be less kludgy to just use the existing private namespace stuff to provide each user with its own /tmp? (Or each user's session, rather, which is probably much easier, as that corresponds precisely to one process tree). -- `Next: FEMA neglects to take into account the possibility of fire in Old Balsawood Town (currently in its fifth year of drought and home of the General Grant Home for Compulsive Arsonists).' --- James Nicoll - 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/