From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261739AbVASOqK (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:46:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261738AbVASOpE (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:45:04 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:16401 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261737AbVASOov (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:44:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert- sys_setaltroot From: David Woodhouse To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andrew Morton , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk In-Reply-To: <1105969356.6304.100.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <200410261928.i9QJS7h3011015@hera.kernel.org> <1103710694.6111.127.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041222030304.07bb036e.akpm@osdl.org> <1105968934.26551.347.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1105969356.6304.100.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:44:37 +0000 Message-Id: <1106145878.26551.524.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 Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > The security problems have been addressed, and the namespace-based > > approach was never coherently explained. I can't see how such would > > work. > > see viro's recent proposal for bindmounts and the like. Is that likely to be usable any time soon? -- dwmw2