Re: [PATCH] Version 4 (2.6.23-rc8-mm2) Smack: Simplified MandatoryAccess Control Kernel

[Alan Cox]

> Absolute paths in that kind of thing are _wrong_.  You know where the things
> are on your fs.  You don't know if anything else will be visible, let alone
> whether it will be at the same place in all chroots or namespaces.  And no,
> you _can't_ make sure that fs is visible only in one place.  No fs can or
> has any business even trying.

What I don't understand here is why we need the hacks when we already
support sufficient mount magic to give each login session its own
private /tmp ?
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