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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:54:02 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> cc: Dave Hansen <hansendc@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/22] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time On Feb 9 2007 15:22, Andrew Morton wrote: >On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:53:44 -0800 >Dave Hansen <hansendc@...ibm.com> wrote: > >> This is the core of the read-only bind mount patch set. > >Who wants read-only bind mounts, and for what reason? And another case could be, that some application modifies ~/.xyz, but the user (with root's help) does not want that: mount --bind -r ~/.xyz ~/.xyz chmoding out the w bits does not always work, as programs might tamper with the permissions of ~/.xyz itself... so a ro mount seems to be best. Jan -- ft: http://freshmeat.net/p/chaostables/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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