Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:56:17 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Hi!
> >Plus mount required root priviledges last time I checked. > > bash$ ls -l /bin/mount > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 78504 May 4 23:34 /bin/mount > > with proper policies in userspace it allows users to perform mounts.
You want to do exec() each time you enter a archive? I do not think that is good idea.
> I'm not suggesting that the kernel should be unchanged, but really, > some of the proposals here, to put a hell of a lot of complexity into > the kernel it just wet dreams with not much thought of how it affects > the kernel. What happened to the philosophy of putting complexity and > policy in userspace? Look at khttpd and tux, they were hacks in the > kernel to try things out. But what ended up in the kernel is generic > infrastructure that is useful for a lot more applications than just a > web server. That is the right way to do things.
Well, generic infrastructure for uservfs would be enough for me... And it is few lines in kernel. Pavel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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