Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:33:20 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] private mounts |
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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.
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