From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benny Halevy Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Shared flags Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:37:45 +0200 Message-ID: <491FF7F9.8010202@panasas.com> References: <49183DF9.9010003@etersoft.ru> <20081111085211.GB2323@infradead.org> <20081111100940.GA8968@shareable.org> <20081111111428.GA18228@infradead.org> <491BFCBA.80208@etersoft.ru> <20081113092554.GA3004@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081113092554.GA3004-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Pavel Shilovsky , jamie-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:08:58PM +0300, Pavel Shilovsky wrote: >> We suggest to switch on this flags with special options during mounting. >> By default, it'll be switch off. >> This solution deletes possibility of such situations, like in example. > > Sorry, having completely weird open modes only for one filesystem, and FWIW, I could see something like this being used for nfsv4 OPENs Benny > only depending on mount options is not very nice to the user. > > And options or not allowing the above functionality for regular users > is a security issue. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html