Re: [PATCH 4/6] BC: user interface (syscalls)

Alan Cox
2006-08-23T17:12:21Z

Ar Mer, 2006-08-23 am 09:50 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:43:16 +0400
> Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> wrote:
>
> > +asmlinkage long sys_set_bclimit(uid_t id, unsigned long resource,
> > + unsigned long *limits)
>
> I'm still a bit mystified about the use of uid_t here. It's not a uid, is
> it?

Its a uid_t because of setluid() and twenty odd years of existing unix
practice.

Alan