Bug 7172

Summary: [PATCH] Explain confusing mount behavior in man pages
Product: Documentation Reporter: Stefan Eggers <seggers>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: seggers
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Stefan Eggers 1998-07-05 12:10:01 UTC 
	Mounting on a directory with permissions 0700 leads to the
links . and .. in the mounted filesystem to be inaccessible to non-
owners.  This is confusing and should have been documented in the
mount man pages.

Fix: Here are patches for mount(2) and mount(8) which add some
explanation under BUGS.  I think that's the appropriate place as it
can't be the intended one.
How-To-Repeat: 
	Try such a mount and then as a mere user try accessing .. in
the newly mounted filesystem.  Have fun.
Comment 1 Poul-Henning Kamp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1998-07-07 10:51:30 UTC 
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From-To: open->suspended

awaiting committer
Comment 2 Joseph Koshy freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1998-07-09 06:48:03 UTC 
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From-To: suspended->closed

Fixed in rev 1.23 of "mount.8", thanks!  I felt mount(8) was a more 
appropriate place for this doc path than mount(2).