Re: unprivileged mounts git tree

Miklos Szeredi
2008-09-04T15:40:59Z

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Are you going to revert the change forcing CL_SLAVE for
> > !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)? I don't think we want that - I think that
> > *within* a set of user mounts, propagation should be safe, right?
> >
> > Will you be able to do this soon? If not, should we just do the part
> > returning -EPERM when turning a shared mount into a user mount?
>
> OK, let's do that first and the tricky part (propagation vs. user
> mounts) later. Will push after I've tested it.

Here it is:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git unprivileged-mounts

I don't know what's next, this patchset has been in and out of -mm for
as long as I can remember, but it hasn't generated much interest
outside the two of us :)

I do think this is an important feature though, even if not as sexy as
some other things.

Al? Is there any chance of this making it to 2.6.28?

Thanks,
Miklos