Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 15:49:35 EST


On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 13:31 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:26:25PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 13:22 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> >
> > > So do we actually plan to handle namespaces at all wrt kevents?
> >
> > I don't see why we have to.
> >
> > A mount event should really just cause a rescan of the mount table.
>
> In which namespace? All of them? Is that an information leak that might
> be hazardous (I'm bad with security stuff).

In the namespace of sysfs :).
It's just the physical device.

Thanks,
Kay

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