From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262797AbVAQNfx (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:35:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262799AbVAQNfx (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:35:53 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:51217 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262797AbVAQNfq (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:35:46 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert- sys_setaltroot From: David Woodhouse To: Andrew Morton Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk In-Reply-To: <20041222030304.07bb036e.akpm@osdl.org> References: <200410261928.i9QJS7h3011015@hera.kernel.org> <1103710694.6111.127.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041222030304.07bb036e.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:35:33 +0000 Message-Id: <1105968934.26551.347.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 03:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > There were security problems and suggestions that a namespace-based > approach would be better. umm, have a random sprinkle of emails: The security problems have been addressed, and the namespace-based approach was never coherently explained. I can't see how such would work. -- dwmw2