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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Rumen Bogdanovski <rbogdanovski@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sys_geteuid() quesion
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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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