Re: FUSE inclusion?

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat May 28 2005 - 05:54:12 EST


On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:44:54PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > So, if anybody still got a problem with the current version (as in -mm
> > > or released as 2.3-rc1 on SF.net), please speak up now.
> >
> > FUSE_ALLOW_OTHER and FUSE_DEFAULT_PERMISSIONS are still there, and off by
> > default.
>
> Yes. The difference between last time lays in the details of the
> implementation, which is now well documented in
> Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt, and to which everybody has agreed
> to. Or am I mistaken? Do you have any specific objection to the
> security measures layed out in there?

Just because it's documented it's not any better. It's still the horrible
hack it was at the beginning and no amount of discussion or documentation
will change that.

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