> The problem is the possibility of denial-of-service attacks here. We > can try to prevent them by: > 1) specifying an extra security bit on the file that indicates that > share flags are accepted (like we have for mandatory locks now) and > setting it for neccessary files only, or > 2) adding a special mount option (but it it probably makes sense if we > decided to add this support for CIFS and NFS only). 3) making it a property that the process opts into - the same fs can have Linux and wine users at once. But for such a big set of changes and with the kind of potential fallout you need to demonstrate a good practical use case IMHO, not just a "neat idea I had". Alan -- 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
