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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] PAG support, try #2
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:26:23 -0700
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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?

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>