On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Is it really a problem? The admin can always go ahead and kill the > user, which already takes care of any mounts in private namespaces, It's not necessarily against the admin, it could deny service to another user or a script running as root. The nasty thing is: an unprivileged user can cause unlink/rmdir to fail, even when otherwise it would have succeed. It's not a huge issue: unprivileged fuse mounts have the same effect, and nobody complained yet. But I think we have to deal with this in some way, not just leaving it to the admin. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html