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Message-Id: <E1JEjEE-0000xZ-RU@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:41:10 +0100 From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> To: serue@...ibm.com CC: miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hch@...radead.org, serue@...ibm.com, 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 > 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. Thanks for the review, Serge! Miklos -- 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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