Re: problems with changing UID/GID

[Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>]

--On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 08:30:53 PM +0200 Trond Myklebust
<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:

> The BSD approach is to split out the user credentials, since they are
> used all over the place in the filesystems, and often need to be
> cached. The uid, euid, ... are kept in a reference-counted 'process'
> credential of the form

I like that approach, if you really think it's a good idea to have a
separate structure for the subset needed for IO.  I'm not clear why it'd be
a bad idea to have one structure and the IO subsystem would only use the
parts it cares about, but you've clearly thought about it more than I have,
so I'll take your word for it.

I looked through your patches.  It looks like you're on the right track,
generally.  I am a little concerned about some of the current_get*/set*
functions.  I'm not entirely convinced there aren't race conditions in
them, but I need to think harder on it.

Dave McCracken

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Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
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