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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:08 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> yes, of course, vfsmount, which I assume is what Eric meant?
> 
> Which means we'd have to do this at permission() using the nameidata, or
> pass nd to generic_permission. 

Yeah, I think so.  But, this is well into Al territory, and there might
be a better way.

-- Dave