Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:21:27 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] private mounts |
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Hi!
> > Exactly. So can we simply merge root-only fuse, and then worry > > how to make it safe with user-mounted fuse. See your own unfsd example > > why user-mounting is bad. > > > > One possible solution would be to have root-owned fused that > > talks to user-owned fused-s and checks they are behaving correctly? > > It's very hard to do that. What should be the timeout for requests, > so that valid filesystems don't break, yet it's not possible to do a > fairly ugly DoS? It's almost impossible I'd say.
You can still put those two lines into root-owned fused, where people are less likely to notice them ;-). Pavel -- Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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