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From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
	serue@us.ibm.com,
	Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4][cr]: Define __f_setown_uid()
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:05:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100512170510.GB11144@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100512140741.GF10452@parisc-linux.org>

Matthew Wilcox [matthew@wil.cx] wrote:
| On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:38:18PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
| > __f_setown_uid() is same as __f_setown(), except that instead of assuming the
| > uid and euid of current process, it expects them to be passed in as parameters.
| > 
| > This interface will be useful when checkpointing and restarting an application
| > that has a 'file owner' specified for any of the application's open files.
| > The uid, euid of the process setting up the owner is saved in the checkpoint
| > image. When the application is restarted, the save uid and euid values are
| > restored.
| 
| There are only four callers of __f_setown in the kernel.  I'd rather see
| __f_setown converted to take the arguments directly.

Ok.

Sukadev

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-12 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-11 22:38 [RFC][PATCH 0/4][cr]: Checkpoint/restart file-owner info Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-05-11 22:38 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4][cr]: Add uid, euid params to f_modown() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-05-12 17:05   ` Jamie Lokier
2010-05-12 17:30     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-05-12 20:12       ` Oren Laadan
2010-05-11 22:38 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4][cr]: Define __f_setown_uid() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-05-12 14:07   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-05-12 17:05     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu [this message]
2010-05-11 22:38 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4][cr]: Checkpoint file-owner information Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-05-11 22:38 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4][cr]: Restore file_owner info Sukadev Bhattiprolu

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