[Devel] Re: [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Mon Apr 16 12:58:10 PDT 2007
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:39:19PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos at szeredi.hu> writes:
>
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi at suse.cz>
> >
> > The owner doesn't need sysadmin capabilities to call umount().
> >
> > Similar behavior as umount(8) on mounts having "user=UID" option in
> > /etc/mtab. The difference is that umount also checks /etc/fstab,
> > presumably to exclude another mount on the same mountpoint.
> >
>
> bool in the kernel?
It's there already...
> int would be much more recognizable as this is not C++
>
> Or do you have place to convert the rest of the kernel that is using
> int to return a true/false value to bool?
It's already underway:
$ git log | grep bool | wc -l
123
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