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**** WORK IN PROGRESS **** INCOMPLETE FILE ****
VIEWFS - A Process with a View (on a File System)
1. Basic concepts
The aim of viewfs is to allow a process, or a group of processes, to have a
personal (and user-definable) view on the filesystem. Some examples:
- a view for an untrusted process may hide every file that is not strictly
required for the execution of that process. In particular, the user would
probably hide the subdirectories of his own home directory containing
sensitive data (e.g. mail folders, web browser history, private ssh keys
etc.);
- a process might need a personalized nameserver. In this case, the user can
hide the original /etc/resolv.conf file and provide a different version to
the process;
- ... (TODO: aggiungere altro)
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