Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755705AbXLRXA3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:00:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752407AbXLRXAV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:00:21 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:33889 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752626AbXLRXAU (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:00:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:00:16 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Mark Lord Cc: Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ? Message-ID: <20071218230016.GF8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <47684DBD.6030502@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47684DBD.6030502@rtr.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 471 Lines: 10 On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Why does link(2) not support hard-linking across bind mount points > of the same underlying filesystem ? Because it gives you a security boundary around a subtree. -- 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/