linux-kernel - Re: unprivileged mounts git tree

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Message-Id: <E1KbGwb-0002rl-49@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:40:25 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	serue@...ibm.com
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unprivileged mounts git tree

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Are you going to revert the change forcing CL_SLAVE for
> > !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)?  I don't think we want that - I think that
> > *within* a set of user mounts, propagation should be safe, right?
> > 
> > Will you be able to do this soon?  If not, should we just do the part
> > returning -EPERM when turning a shared mount into a user mount? 
> 
> OK, let's do that first and the tricky part (propagation vs. user
> mounts) later.  Will push after I've tested it.

Here it is:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git unprivileged-mounts

I don't know what's next, this patchset has been in and out of -mm for
as long as I can remember, but it hasn't generated much interest
outside the two of us :)

I do think this is an important feature though, even if not as sexy as
some other things.

Al?  Is there any chance of this making it to 2.6.28?

Thanks,
Miklos
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