loopback devices

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 19:39 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:

> Any thoughts?

losetup is privileged as well, so there's not much point in making the
loop devices show up to be mountable since regular users can't associate
a file with the loop to start with.

If you want to make them able to associate a file with a loop to say
mount a CD image, you'd need to do that in hal and make sure they can
only mount files they can access.

Basically, mounting CDs, USB devices etc works by just plugging them in.
But loop devices are always there and the iso images are also always
there so it needs an explicit by the user to associate some file with a
loop and then mount that.

johannes
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