Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:08:58PM +0300, Pavel Shilovsky wrote: > > We suggest to switch on this flags with special options during mounting. > > By default, it'll be switch off. > > This solution deletes possibility of such situations, like in example. > > Sorry, having completely weird open modes only for one filesystem, and > only depending on mount options is not very nice to the user. > > And options or not allowing the above functionality for regular users > is a security issue.
A generic mount option is currently used for mandatory locking - this is very similar. The only different I see, for security, is with mandatory locking a process which doesn't want to get stuck can check the permission bits before opening a file. But I'm not aware of anything actually doing this. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
