Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

2008-01-16 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > Why not "nosubmnt"? > > > > Why not indeed. Maybe I should try to use my brain sometime. > > Well it really should have 'user' or 'unpriv' in the name > somewhere. 'nosubmnt' is more confusing than 'nomnt' because > it no submounts really sounds like a reasonable thing in > itself... I s

Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

2008-01-15 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Miklos Szeredi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Why not "nosubmnt"? > > Why not indeed. Maybe I should try to use my brain sometime. Well it really should have 'user' or 'unpriv' in the name somewhere. 'nosubmnt' is more confusing than 'nomnt' because it no submounts really sounds like a reason

Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

2008-01-15 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> Why not "nosubmnt"? Why not indeed. Maybe I should try to use my brain sometime. Thanks, Miklos -- 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 rea

Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

2008-01-15 Thread A. C. Censi
On Jan 15, 2008 8:41 AM, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting Miklos Szeredi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Add a new mount flag "nomnt", which denies submounts for the owner. > > > This would be useful, if we want to support traditi

Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

2008-01-15 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> Quoting Miklos Szeredi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > 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

Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

2008-01-14 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Miklos Szeredi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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

[patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag

2008-01-08 Thread Miklos Szeredi
From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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