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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:18:20 +0100
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:08:13PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This simple patch adds support for private (or invisible) mounts.  The
> rationale is to allow mounts to be private for a user but still in the
> global namespace.

As mentioned in the last -fsdevel thread a few times the idea of per-user
mounts is fundamentally flawed.  Crossing a namespace boundary must be
explicit - using clone or a new unshare() syscall.