Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

From: Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 12:07:12 EST


Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > What keeps users from opening files before the upper layer
> > filesystems get mounted?
>
> Nothing. Why would we want to do such silly things?

  If I installed a virus scanner I would hope it could do that, otherwise
I might screw up and forget to set up all the layering just once and
get infected. If I can tell it "protect all local filesystems" then
I can forget about it from then on.

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