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Re: The Hurd: what is it?
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: The Hurd: what is it? |
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Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:54:52 +0100 |
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Marcus Brinkmann <marcus.brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> The active translator problem seems serious to me. Without any
> guarantee about the implementation of a service, you can not know what
> it does. This means that you must be prepared for any malicious
> behaviour, including: no response (stalling the client), infinite
> virtual directory tree, confusing inode numbers and link counts,
> rapidly changing filesystem structure (to trigger race conditions) etc
> etc.
>
> This is why in FUSE, users don't see the user filesystems of other
> users. I am afraid that given the seriousness of the problem, this is
> the only sane option. Only with a broader semantic framework can you
> re-enable sharing on a case by case basis.
This was discussed on bug-hurd before. Doesn't the proposed solution
of making it possible for the user to configure which translators are
trusted and which are not? For example, I could configure I only want
to follow translators set by root and myself.
--
Marco
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, (continued)
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/11/12
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Sergio Lopez, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Sergio Lopez, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?,
Marco Gerards <=
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/11/10
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marco Gerards, 2005/11/12
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/11/12
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Sergio Lopez, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Sergio Lopez, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/11/09