Re: [PATCH] private mounts

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Wed Apr 27 2005 - 13:16:25 EST


> eg:
>
> user 1 does a invisible mount on /mnt/mnt1
> root does a visible mount on /mnt/mnt1
>
> user 1 will no longer be able to access his /mnt/mnt1
>
> in fact even if root mounts something on /mnt, the problem still exists.

This is not something specific to FUSE. Root can overmount any of
your directories after which you won't be able to access it (unless
some of your processes have a CWD there).

Miklos
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