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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] private mounts
    On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
    > And for the first part, please _explain_ why you think it's crap.

    Problem 1:

    - you're mounting things into the global namespace, but expect it only
    be visible to a certain subset of processes. these processes are also
    not specicified by a tradition unix session / process group / etc but
    against all the process attributes we have based on the uid

    Problem 2, which is related:

    - in fuse you're re-routing filesystem request to userspace, so fine so good
    - mount is currently a privilegued operation, and expects a privilegued
    filesystem implementation, not an ordinary user
    - to bypass that you have a suid mount wrapper
    - now you need various hacks to make sure this can't be used by other users

    in short you are hacking around the namespace management which sits above
    the filesystems in a rather broken way.
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