> > It's a matter of surprise. I can easily imagine the point and click user
> > tapping their icon to mount numerous times expecting to see the cdrom or
> > floppy spin and see nothing all the while not realizing they are
> > compounding the mounts. Be it their cdrom, it won't eject until they have
> > unmounted the right mount with a cwd set. I vaguely recall several gui
> > mount utils that store the mounted/not mounted status within themselves
> > and likely break.
>
> So fix them - not to mention the fact that GUI suid-root anything is a
> _really_ scary idea, if application wants to have <foo> done at most once
> it should not call <foo> the second time.
Why should the GUI be suid-root at all? It's common practice to have _mount_
suid-root, and mark things like the floppy and cdrom as non-root-user
mountable in /etc/fstab.
Anyway, wouldn't autofs be a better way of doing this?
David Howells
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