Re: Bug 24912 - I think this one fell through the cracks a bit

From: Nick Krause
Date: Mon Jul 28 2014 - 01:43:29 EST


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Steven Stewart-Gallus
<sstewartgallus00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think that bug 2491 at
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24912 sort of fell through
> the cracks and I'm not sure as many people are aware of it as there
> could be. This bug is that one can't mount bind mounts readonly but
> can only remount them readonly which is insufficient for recursive
> bind mounts and certain kinds of sandboxing. Also the bind mount fails
> silenty without giving an error which is never a good idea.
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Steven,
It's late now but I will look into this tomorrow and see if I can
trace the issue
and may be write a solution.
Cheers Nick
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