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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:06:27
Message-Id: 525C406D.1070901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink by Rich Freeman
1 On 10/14/2013 01:24 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > Systemd lets you configure daemons to have restricted access to the
3 > filesystem as well - either read-only, or not at all - by directory.
4 > I assume it just clones the mount namespace, and then sets up
5 > bind-mounts to implement this before dropping root and launching the
6 > process.
7
8 On 10/14/2013 01:08 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
9 > This functionality can't be fully supported if /etc/mtab is a file.
10
11 That is all that I needed to read. Make sure that there are no
12 regressions for existing users and I am all for it. :)

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