From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>,
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
<openafs-devel@openafs.org>
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] PAG support, try #2
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:26:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylel30zvgw.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305141749490.28007-100000@home.transmeta.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 14 May 2003 17:57:43 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> Yeah, and the thing I think it _totally_ and utterly broken is that
> there can be only one of these per process.
> I don't see where the 1:1 idea comes from, except from a bad
> implementation.
If a single process is in possession of multiple sets of credentials at
the same time, how does the file system code in the kernel know which ones
to use for a given operation with a network file system?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>,
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
<openafs-devel@openafs.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] PAG support, try #2
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:26:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylel30zvgw.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305141749490.28007-100000@home.transmeta.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 14 May 2003 17:57:43 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> Yeah, and the thing I think it _totally_ and utterly broken is that
> there can be only one of these per process.
> I don't see where the 1:1 idea comes from, except from a bad
> implementation.
If a single process is in possession of multiple sets of credentials at
the same time, how does the file system code in the kernel know which ones
to use for a given operation with a network file system?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 4:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 10:43 [PATCH] PAG support, try #2 David Howells
2003-05-14 10:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-14 11:56 ` David Howells
2003-05-14 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-14 12:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-14 12:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-14 11:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-05-14 12:03 ` David Howells
2003-05-14 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-14 17:37 ` David Howells
2003-05-15 11:18 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-18 14:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-14 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-14 16:58 ` Jan Harkes
2003-05-14 17:11 ` Jan Harkes
2003-05-14 20:45 ` [OpenAFS-devel] " Harald Barth
2003-05-15 0:14 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 0:14 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 0:57 ` [OpenAFS-devel] " Linus Torvalds
2003-05-15 1:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-15 2:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-15 14:04 ` Dean Anderson
2003-05-15 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-15 16:41 ` David Howells
2003-05-15 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-16 12:12 ` David Howells
2003-05-15 23:00 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 23:00 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 23:21 ` QM_MODULES Function not implemented John Shillinglaw
2003-05-16 0:53 ` [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] PAG support, try #2 Nathan Neulinger
2003-05-15 4:26 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2003-05-15 4:26 ` Russ Allbery
2003-05-15 4:59 ` [OpenAFS-devel] " Linus Torvalds
2003-05-15 15:34 ` Booker Bense
2003-05-15 15:34 ` Booker Bense
2003-05-15 6:04 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-15 13:26 ` [OpenAFS-devel] " Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 13:26 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 13:12 ` [OpenAFS-devel] " Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 13:12 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 15:55 ` [OpenAFS-devel] " Douglas E. Engert
2003-05-15 15:55 ` Douglas E. Engert
2003-05-15 13:35 ` [OpenAFS-devel] " David Howells
2003-05-15 13:55 ` chas williams
[not found] <499763005@toto.iv>
2003-05-15 23:44 ` Peter Chubb
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-16 18:05 Dr. Greg Wettstein
2003-05-16 18:28 ` Jesse Pollard
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