Re: FUSE merging?

Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-30T10:00:21Z

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:51 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > What's up with FUSE merging? Is there anything pending that I should
> > > do?
> >
> > Where are we up to with the fuse_allow_task() bunfight?
>
> I think we agreed, that there seem to be no alternatives.
>
> Tytso said, that fuse_allow_task() thing is basically OK, but there
> should be some method to make certain tasks excempt from this
> limitation. I agree, with this, but I think there should be at least
> one (preferably more) users who actually need this, before I start
> thinking about implementing it.
>
> Making a mount be excepmt is already possible with the 'allow_other'
> (privileged by default) mount option.

if you are so interested in getting fuse merged... why not merge it
first with the security stuff removed entirely. And then start
discussing putting security stuff back in ?