From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Rumen Bogdanovski <rbogdanovski@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_geteuid() quesion
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 14:44:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5kwureu.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikkju0MNjQwDs-n9EszNTyIP2uE7kcepjVhVBmQ@mail.gmail.com> (Rumen Bogdanovski's message of "Fri, 28 May 2010 15:07:21 +0300")
Rumen Bogdanovski <rbogdanovski@gmail.com> writes:
> Or simply how can I a module know who is calling its read or write?
The current task is always (except in interrupt context) available in
current, and its euid is returned by current_euid().
Andreas.
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