Re: FUSE merging? (2)

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > > But that's not really acceptable (see previous audit case) unless FUSE
> > > refuses to mount on non-leaf dirs.
> > 
> > I don't think the audit case is important.  It's easy to work around
> > it manually by the sysadmin, and for the automatic case it doesn't
> > really matter (as detailed above).
> 
> Note that the audit case "as user" is less important than the root case. I
> consider the latter very important and EACCES will break it when FUSE
> permits mounting on non-leaf dirs.

OK.  Can you tell me, why you consider it important?  And what's your
proposal for dealing with it?

Refusing to mount on non-leaf dir is not a solution, since it would
still allow arbitrary hiding.

Miklos
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