On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:23:48PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Add a new filesystem flag, that results in the VFS not checking if the > current process has enough privileges to do an mknod(). > > This is needed on filesystems, where an unprivileged user may be able > to create a device node, without causing security problems.
A user should never be able to create devices. And no, I don't want to see a filesystem that implements it's own file operations for device nodes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
