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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...>
Cc: <hch@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capability checks
Date: Friday, September 21, 2007 - 9:14 am

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 03:10:26PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

That's something that shouldn't be solved in the filesystem, but rather
through exact semantics of unprivilegued mounts.  Given that an
unprivilegued implies ignoring the device files we can easily allow
users to create them, because they're nothing special anymore.

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[patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capabili..., Miklos Szeredi, (Fri Sep 21, 8:23 am)
Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capa..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Sep 21, 8:45 am)
Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capa..., Miklos Szeredi, (Fri Sep 21, 9:10 am)
Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capa..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Sep 21, 9:14 am)
Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capa..., Miklos Szeredi, (Fri Sep 21, 9:18 am)
Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capa..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Sep 21, 10:33 am)
Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capa..., Miklos Szeredi, (Fri Sep 21, 10:48 am)
Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capa..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Sep 21, 10:53 am)
Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capa..., Miklos Szeredi, (Fri Sep 21, 11:11 am)