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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0702101051440.1119@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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
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