Re: Autofs: Need UID & VFS hook, security notice

[H. Peter Anvin]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
>     Additional locks required, for one thing.  You really don't want to do
>     this in the VFS; rather as a shim on the block device level.
> 
> I am not an expert on these things, so I won't try to argue about
> whether this is true.  Supposing you're right, and the best way to do
> this job is at the block device level, do you think that is a feasible
> approach for solving the problem?
> 

As well as the problem can be solved with broken hardware, yes.

        -hpa

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