Re: [PATCH] private mounts

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > Christoph, you are being thickheaded, and this is not the first time.
> > Please go away.
> 
> Please stop the flaming.  You're adding the equivalent of "I've added
> a suid shell, please make sure it can only affect the caller's files".
> 
> Do you really think we want to add such crap?

Do you think I'd want such crap?

No. FUSE is not a suid shell, and it's definitely not crap.  You are
being impolite and without a reason.  So don't be surprised if you get
burned.

> You're really falling into the Hans Reiser trap - if you just wanted to
> add a simple userland filesystem you'd be done by now, but you're trying
> to funnel new semantics in through it.  Which is by far not as easy as
> adding a simple file system driver and needs a lot more though.  

I've started FUSE in 2001.  Did you think it was easy getting this far?

Come on!

Miklos
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