linux-kernel - Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:53:42 -0200
From:	"A. C. Censi" <accensi@...il.com>
To:	"Miklos Szeredi" <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	serue@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, ebiederm@...ssion.com, kzak@...hat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

On Jan 15, 2008 8:41 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
> > Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@...redi.hu):
> > > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> > >
> > > Add a new mount flag "nomnt", which denies submounts for the owner.
> > > This would be useful, if we want to support traditional /etc/fstab
> > > based user mounts.
> > >
> > > In this case mount(8) would still have to be suid-root, to check the
> > > mountpoint against the user/users flag in /etc/fstab, but /etc/mtab
> > > would no longer be mandatory for storing the actual owner of the
> > > mount.
> >
> > Ah, I see, so the floppy drive could be mounted as a MNT_NOMNT but
> > MNT_USER mount with mnt_owner set.  Makes sense.  I'd ask for a better
> > name than 'nomnt', but I can't think of one myself.
>
> Me neither.
>

Why not "nosubmnt"?


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