Miklos Szeredi wrote: > The same can be true for tarfs. I mount it for my purpose, others can > mount it for theirs. Since the daemon providing the filesystem asways > runs with the same capabilities as the user who did the mount, I and > others will always get the permissions that we have on the actual tar > file.
Fair enough. > Think of the "no permission for others" as "hiding", not as some > special permission rule. And if this hiding can be nicely done with > namespaces, all the better, I'll happily drop this feature at that > instant. Indeed, if it can be done with namespaces _and_ mounting on a file (that file-as-directory concept), _and_ automounting, then you could cd into your tgz files and others could too :) -- Jamie - 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/