From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:42:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7k5na1yjb.fsf@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071219142351.GI8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:23:51 +0000")
Hi Al,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:43:26PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>
>> Since nobody knows about this "security boundary" and everybody knows about
>> the annoying "can't link across bind-mountpoints bug",
>
> ... how about teaching people to RTFM? Starting, perhaps, with man 2
> link?
Making people RTFM? Are you trippin? ;)
But in the sense of providing mechanism not (only) policy, a mount
option for that behaviour would still be nice.
Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-19 15:44 UTC|newest]
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2007-12-19 13:43 ` RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ? Bodo Eggert
2007-12-19 14:23 ` Al Viro
2007-12-19 15:42 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2007-12-19 16:44 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-20 20:55 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-12-20 1:33 linux
2007-12-20 2:06 ` Mark Lord
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2007-12-18 22:46 Mark Lord
2007-12-18 22:57 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-18 23:00 ` Al Viro
2007-12-18 23:14 ` Al Viro
2007-12-19 3:54 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-19 3:59 ` David Newall
2007-12-19 16:47 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-19 18:38 ` David Newall
2007-12-29 2:53 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-29 3:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-29 6:02 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-29 6:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-29 8:29 ` David Newall
2007-12-29 16:18 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-29 20:35 ` David Newall
2007-12-29 20:40 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-30 3:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-30 3:55 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-27 3:43 ` Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
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