From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce BSD-style user credential [3/3] Date: 31 Aug 2002 14:02:00 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8Vuk51-mw-B@khms.westfalen.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: torvalds@transmeta.com cc: dmccr@us.ibm.com cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 30.08.02 in : > One thing that may be interesting (I certainly think it migth be), would > be to add a "struct user_struct *" pointer to the vfs_cred as well. This > is because I'd just _love_ to have that "user_struct" fed down to the VFS > layer, since I think that is where we may some day want to put things like > user-supplied cryptographic keys etc. > > The advantage of "struct user_struct" (as opposed to just a uid_t) is that > it can have information that lives for the whole duration of a login, and > it's really the only kind of data structure in the kernel that can track > that kind of information. In that case, wouldn't "struct session" be a better name? MfG Kai