From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:42:25 +1100
From: Andy Newman <andy.newman@silverbrookresearch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader - now: User mode filesystems in linux
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geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> Someone at the 9bof claimed that at least one of the BSDs already
> permits users to mount things

FreeBSD does, don't know about the others.

> Perhaps any directory that you own would make more sense.

Comments taken from mount (in vfs_syscalls.c)...

    /*
     * If the user is not root, ensure that they own the directory 
     * onto which we are attempting to mount.
     */

> Certainly one would want to think through the interactions
> of set-id and user mounts.

    /*
     * Silently enforce MNT_NOSUID and MNT_NODEV for non-root users
     */