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Re: [PATCH 10/17] hurd: add fsys_get_children


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] hurd: add fsys_get_children
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:26:18 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Neal H. Walfield, le Fri 12 Jul 2013 15:13:30 +0200, a écrit :
> How do you do permission checking?
> 
> Making a directory executable but not readable is a useful way to
> grant permission by knowledge of a shared secret.

Right.

That being said, I don't think we want /proc/mounts to show
non-{root,self} translators, so it would be only about root trying to
hide things.

Samuel



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