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Re: (Semi-random) thoughts on device tree structure and devfs



> And now anyone who can jack around with the userspace daemon process
> can cause you to mount a filesystem you didn't intend to mount.

Anyone who can meddle with a root-run process can do a lot worse than
that (to start with, mounting that filesystem directly).

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