linux-kernel - Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

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Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:23:51 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
Cc:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: permit link(2)  to work across --bind mounts ?

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?
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