From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261216AbVELGp6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 02:45:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261213AbVELGp5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 02:45:57 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:22993 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261155AbVELGpu (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 02:45:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 07:45:14 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Eric Van Hensbergen Cc: Ram , Miklos Szeredi , 7eggert@gmx.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, smfrench@austin.rr.com, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [RCF] [PATCH] unprivileged mount/umount Message-ID: <20050512064514.GA12315@mail.shareable.org> References: <42WNo-1eJ-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <20050511170700.GC2141@mail.shareable.org> <1115840139.6248.181.camel@localhost> <20050511212810.GD5093@mail.shareable.org> <1115851333.6248.225.camel@localhost> <20050512010215.GB8457@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 5/11/05, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Please read carefully: I've described what _current_ kernels do. > > > > I guess I misread when you wrote: There are some things which you can't do with current kernels due to the checks against current->namespace. I'm not sure how important those checks are. And there are some things which you _can_ do, such as passing directory file descriptors among processes which are in different namespaces. -- Jamie