Re: [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount

Greg KH
2007-04-16T20:11:08Z

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:39:19PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> writes:
>
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> >
> > The owner doesn't need sysadmin capabilities to call umount().
> >
> > Similar behavior as umount(8) on mounts having "user=UID" option in
> > /etc/mtab. The difference is that umount also checks /etc/fstab,
> > presumably to exclude another mount on the same mountpoint.
> >
>
> bool in the kernel?

It's there already...

> int would be much more recognizable as this is not C++
>
> Or do you have place to convert the rest of the kernel that is using
> int to return a true/false value to bool?

It's already underway:
$ git log | grep bool | wc -l
123