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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: interesting feature on AMIX..
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Date: 27 Jun 91 15:10:25 GMT
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In article <2762@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
                               [...]
>mount places a filesystem (a set of files in a kernel known format) in
>the unix hierarchy by an entirely different unix mechanism which does
>not require interpretting the permission bits of individual files until
>said file is accessed.

Yes, in order to do this securely something besides mount would have to do
verification and then call mount (you would not allow the user to call mount
directly).

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