RE: [MiNT] drive letters (was: Kernal questions)

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > > > I would propose to just allow Fattrib() on the u: drive. This way,
> > > > interested people can use chmod.ttp during system startup to hide the
> > > > entries if they want to. Should be a painless change.
> >
> > As you know, the purpose of chmod is to restrict access (or hide) certain
> > directories.  In the case of / it belongs to root, so if we allow a chmod
> > on U: we could easily end up locking access to the whole filesystem.
> 
> I don't see how this would be a problem if we support only the "hidden" flag
> for Fattrib(), and if this ability remains restricted to the super user.

If root hides / from itself, then who can still access it?  Nobody.
Same problem if / is owned by root and root does "chmod 100 /" or
something similarly stupid.  Then the whole filesystem is gone.....

Quite frankly, it would be much better to simply remove the parts
that mount the logical drives into / from the kernel sources.

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