From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:33:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:33:26 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:64519 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:33:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:32:56 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Daniel Phillips , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug Message-ID: <20010110183256.A28025@gruyere.muc.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <3A5B61F7.FB0E79C1@innominate.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:29:02PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Al has mentioned that he wants us to move towards a *BSD-like system > of credentials (i.e. struct ucred) that could be used here, but that's > in the far future. In the meantime, we cache RPC credentials in the > struct file... struct ucred is also needed to get LinuxThreads POSIX compliant (sharing credentials between threads, but still keeping system calls atomic in relation to credential changes) -Andi (who doesn't want to know how many security holes are in linux ported programs using threads and set*id() because of that) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/