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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:38:32 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: csant <csant@csant.info>,
	"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] mount 9P on Linux and FreeBSD via FUSE
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On 7/27/06, csant <csant@csant.info> wrote:
> > this allows me (without becoming root or having v9fs) to
> >       ; mount $home/9/acme
>
> But you'd have the 9p module, obviously. It's such a nonsene that the
> linux kernel doesn't allow mounting for non-privileged users
> out-of-the-box, IMO. I like filesystems in userspace.
>
Yeah but it did allow that, it would currently allow users to bind
their own passwd file or sudoers etc etc over /etc (unless they had an
implementation that prevented such things).

The problems in unix really were too deep to fix at some point... at
least in any elegant way :-)


> /c
>