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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:46:14 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc] fcntl: Add F_GETOWNER_UIDS option
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On 03/28, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
> If you want to
> just add the struct cred to the f_owner and do proper uid conversion,
> I'll support that too.  (Just grab a ref to the cred in
> fs/fcntl.c:f_modown(), and drop the ref in fs/file_table.c:__fput() ).

In this case f_owner.*uid should go away, I guess. And sigio_perm()
should be unified with kill_ok_by_cred() somehow (modulo
security_file_send_sigiotask).

Right?

Oleg.