linux-kernel - Re: [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount

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Message-ID: <20070416195810.GB16255@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:58:10 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	serue@...ibm.com, viro@....linux.org.uk, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:39:19PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> writes:
> 
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> >
> > The owner doesn't need sysadmin capabilities to call umount().
> >
> > Similar behavior as umount(8) on mounts having "user=UID" option in
> > /etc/mtab.  The difference is that umount also checks /etc/fstab,
> > presumably to exclude another mount on the same mountpoint.
> >
> 
> bool in the kernel?

It's there already...

> int would be much more recognizable as this is not C++
> 
> Or do you have place to convert the rest of the kernel that is using
> int to return a true/false value to bool?

It's already underway:
	$ git log | grep bool | wc -l
	123

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