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SubjectRe: [PATCH] private mounts
Hello!

> It is not there for the purpose of protecting user's data. Rather for
> protecting other users (including root) from unknowingly entering the
> FUSE directory and thus leaking otherwise inaccessible information
> (exact file operations performed) to the mount owner.

Huh? Do you really suppose that there could be anything secret in the
operations somebody else is performing on your files?

I still don't see any real problem this check could ever solve.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
God is real, unless declared integer.
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