Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] PAG support, try #2

Russ Allbery
2003-05-15T04:13:42Z

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/>