Is this a kernel issue?

Is this a kernel issue?

Posted Apr 14, 2005 7:58 UTC (Thu) by mjr (guest, #6979)
Parent article: FUSE hits a snag

Seems to me that this sort of issues are likely to be on the user space fs implementation side; that is, I doubt the FUSE kernel patch itself controls the permissions found in a tar file. Therefore, IMAO, this shouldn't be an issue against including the FUSE patch into mainline.

Of course, a case could be made that the FUSE kernel patch should prevent that sort of things, but that just gets on a slippery slope on what as-is harmless things it should prevent, as well as reduce the flexibility of the architecture. Which would be bad.

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