Release Candidates ?

Andrey Borzenkov arvidjaar at mail.ru
Tue Feb 20 07:28:50 PST 2007


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On Вторник 20 февраля 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
>
>  7. Making umount(8) work with HAL for unprivileged users. This one
>     is described in detail here
>
>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188193
>
>     and should be pretty easy to fix. It's a RH specific thing at the
>     moment I think.... 

No it is not. It has been discussed on Manriva cooker list as well (an I 
believe there is a bug report for this)

>     also - be sure to enjoy the exchange of flames 
>     in that bug :-). Anyway, it should be easy to fix.
>

Any real solution requires either making (u)mount depending on HAL/D-Bus or 
modifying kernel to accept proposed option (user or uhelper). Anything that 
relies on /etc/mtab hopelessly breaks if /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts

>     This is probably a release blocker; mostly because it's easy.
>

Well, it just shifts the problem further in the future when namespaces 
appear :)

- -andrey
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