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* Why current->uid is not working in 2.6.29 ?
@ 2009-05-23  4:22 Kunsheng Chen
  2009-05-23  9:17 ` Ozan Çağlayan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kunsheng Chen @ 2009-05-23  4:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel


Hello everyone,

I am new to kernel module programming and got some problem while compiling some old kernel code. 

The
code is trying to get user id using current->uid,   but it is not
working by reminding me 'task_struct; doesn't contain field uid '.  

I checked the linux source code , uid is not there any more.

The 'current' is of task_struct, so could anyone tell me where is the new place for that uid ?


Thanks in advance,

-Kun  



      


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* Re: Why current->uid is not working in 2.6.29 ?
  2009-05-23  4:22 Why current->uid is not working in 2.6.29 ? Kunsheng Chen
@ 2009-05-23  9:17 ` Ozan Çağlayan
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ozan Çağlayan @ 2009-05-23  9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kunsheng Chen; +Cc: linux-kernel

Kunsheng Chen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to kernel module programming and got some problem while compiling some old kernel code. 
>
> The
> code is trying to get user id using current->uid,   but it is not
> working by reminding me 'task_struct; doesn't contain field uid '.  
>
> I checked the linux source code , uid is not there any more.
>   
They were replaced by some other calls. For example the following is a
snippet which ports the old code to the new API:

-                      address, current->uid);
+                      address, current_uid());


The commit 1330deb0f6e89525c8e9fcbd6b13522c9243bfc0 is a good example of
what are the new replacements.

This is all that I know,

Ozan Caglayan

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