From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:59:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac3eb2511001141259t751c6063p8919692a8164e2b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100114205304.GC3814@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 21:53, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> across the device lifetime by creating hardlinks, in the unusual case
>> that there is a user-writable directory on the same filesystem.
>
> Does a tmpfs mounted in /dev/shm count as "user-writable directory on the
> same filesystem" ?
Not if it's a separate tmpfs mount, which is recommended. Only if it's
just a plain directory on the /dev filesystem.
Udev does the same and resets the permissions of the inode before deleting it.
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-14 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 13:16 Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking Kay Sievers
2010-01-14 3:49 ` Greg KH
2010-01-14 5:11 ` Kay Sievers
2010-01-14 20:53 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-01-14 20:59 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2010-01-14 21:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-01-14 21:45 ` Kay Sievers
2010-01-16 2:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-01-16 3:31 ` Greg KH
2010-01-17 3:33 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-01-14 21:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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