To: david@davidnewall.com
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] [RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:26:43 +0900
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Hello.

David Newall wrote:
> Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >  /dev needs to be writable, but this means that files on /dev might be
> >  tampered with.
> 
> I infer that you mean /dev needs to be writable by anyone, not by just 
> its owner or owner and group (conventionally root/root.)  This goes 
> against conventional wisdom, which is that /dev must be writable only by 
> the administrator.  Why do you say otherwise?
I didn't mean that "/dev is writable by everybody".
I meant that "/dev must be mounted for read-write mode"
(even if one wants to mount / for read-only mode).

Regards.
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