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    DateWed, 22 Jun 2005 10:53:52 +0200
    FromPavel Machek <>
    SubjectRe: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status (fuse)
    Hi!
    
    > > > You have a choice of: 1) believe me that the current solution is
    > > > fine
    > > 
    > > >  2) get down and try to understand the damn thing, and then come up
    > > >     with technical arguments for/against it
    > > 
    > > Argument is "it is **** ugly".
    > 
    > Yeah, that's your opinion.  Mine is that it's f****** beautiful ;).
    > 
    > There are plenty of ugly things in Unix/Linux that you've become so
    > accustomed to, that they no longer seem ugly.  Think about the sticky
    > bit on directories for example.  That one was breaking assumptions
    > left and right when it got introduced, but people came to accept it,
    > because it's useful.
    
    Just for the record, I still consider sticky bit "slightly" ugly and
    nfs root squash "very" ugly.
    
    > > Your fuse.txt explains why it is not security hole. It does not
    > > explain why your interface is the best possible, and what alternative
    > > ways of "not security hole" exist.
    > 
    > That's because I don't see any alternative.  The "preventing user from
    > tracing root" and "preventing access to user's filesysem by root" must
    > come together.  There's doesn't seem to be any other way.
    
    It is clear that we can't allow root (or anyone else) to access that
    filesystem. Infinite namespace is nice trap.
    
    > BTW, thanks for reading through fuse.txt :)
    
    You are welcome ;-).
    								Pavel
    
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