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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	arjanv@redhat.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
	drepper@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New authentication management syscalls
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 14:31:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509143147.A23197@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11183.1052485877@warthog.warthog>; from dhowells@redhat.com on Fri, May 09, 2003 at 02:11:17PM +0100

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 02:11:17PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>  (3) settok(const char *fs, const char *key, size_t size, const void *data)

fs is the path to a mount point?

>      Present data to the named filesystem as being the authentication token
>      for the specified key (eg: an AFS cell). If accepted, this token should
>      be stored in the PAG to which the calling process belongs.

s/filesystem/mount instance/

> 
> 	struct file_system_type {
> 	        ...
> 		int settok(struct file_system_type *fstype,
> 			   const char *domain,
> 			   size_t size,
> 			   const void *data);
> 	};

This should go into super_operations instead.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-09 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-09 13:11 [RFC] New authentication management syscalls David Howells
2003-05-09 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-05-09 15:39   ` Bryan Henderson
2003-05-09 17:44   ` David Howells
2003-05-09 18:39     ` Chris Wright
2003-05-09 20:06       ` David Howells

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