Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:23:01 +0100 | From | Samium Gromoff <> |
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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?
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