On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:17:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Absolute paths in that kind of thing are _wrong_. You know where the things > > are on your fs. You don't know if anything else will be visible, let alone > > whether it will be at the same place in all chroots or namespaces. And no, > > you _can't_ make sure that fs is visible only in one place. No fs can or > > has any business even trying. > > What I don't understand here is why we need the hacks when we already > support sufficient mount magic to give each login session its own > private /tmp ?
Presumably his context can change within a login session? If not, it's indeed simply worthless, absolute paths or not. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
