Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758820AbXLSPoR (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:44:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756562AbXLSPoE (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:44:04 -0500 Received: from saeurebad.de ([85.214.36.134]:37403 "EHLO saeurebad.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756600AbXLSPoD (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:44:03 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner To: Al Viro Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Mark Lord , Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ? References: <9BTqk-2ck-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <9BTJN-2Sv-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <9BTTr-35L-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <20071219142351.GI8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:42:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20071219142351.GI8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:23:51 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 23 Hi Al, Al Viro writes: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:43:26PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > >> Since nobody knows about this "security boundary" and everybody knows about >> the annoying "can't link across bind-mountpoints bug", > > ... how about teaching people to RTFM? Starting, perhaps, with man 2 > link? Making people RTFM? Are you trippin? ;) But in the sense of providing mechanism not (only) policy, a mount option for that behaviour would still be nice. Hannes -- 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/