From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:52:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:52:30 -0400 Received: from to-velocet.redhat.com ([216.138.202.10]:61944 "EHLO touchme.toronto.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:52:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:52:30 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Robert Love , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch] (resend) credentials for 2.5.23 Message-ID: <20020621145230.B1499@redhat.com> References: <20020619212909.A3468@redhat.com> <1024540235.917.127.camel@sinai> <20020620122858.B4674@redhat.com> <1024593066.922.149.camel@sinai> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:12:59PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:12:59PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Making the credentials a monolithic block like you appear to be > doing just doesn't make sense. If you look at the way things like > fsuid/fsgid/groups[] are used, you will see that almost all those that > filesystems that care are making their own private copies. I'm not looking at things from the filesystem's point of view, so much as for threads and aio, where rlimits and identificantion needs to be shared between contexts. -ben -- "You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."