Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Samium Gromoff
2004-09-01T22:21:32Z

Alexander Viro wrote:
> Arguments about O_NOFOLLOW on the intermediate stages are bullshit, IMNSHO -
> if they want to make some parts of tree inaccessible, they should simply
> mkdir /tmp/FOAD; chmod 0 /tmp/FOAD; mount --bind /tmp/FOAD <blocked path>
> in the namespace their daemon is running in. And forget all that crap
> about filtering pathnames and blocking symlinks on intermediate stages
> the latter is obviously worthless without the former since one can simply
> substitute the symlink body in the pathname).

This made me wonder -- why not have a dedicated /dev/noaccess special node
for exactly such patterns of usage?

Yes that`ll made it Linux-specific and such... but hey -- if it saves
someone for for literally (?) no cost why not?

regards, Samium Gromoff