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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Connecting to sockets on MNT_READONLY mounts?
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 23:34:32 +0100
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On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 03:20:00PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Is it supposed to work?

Why the hell not?  Same as opening a device node on r/o filesystem for
write, or doing the same with FIFO.