From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263874AbTEFQBi (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 12:01:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263876AbTEFQBh (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 12:01:37 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:11063 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263874AbTEFQBf (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 12:01:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB7DF43.20403@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:13:55 +0200 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: allow rename to "--bind"-mounted filesystem References: <20030506100435.GH890@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com> <20030506143026.GL10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030506143459.GA25606@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com> <20030506150219.GM10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030506150921.GA25849@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com> In-Reply-To: <20030506150921.GA25849@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Riesen wrote: > viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Tue, May 06, 2003 17:02:19 +0200: >>Binding a subtree creates a sandbox of sorts. You can bind a bunch of >>subtrees of the same fs into namespace and have normal protection >>against rename and link between them. > > sounds useful, even though i can't think of real example of such a use :) chroot? As Al said, you create a sandbox this way. Saved me more than once from stupid mistakes. Carl-Daniel