Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 30 Apr 2003 20:19:32 +0200 |
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>>>>> " " == Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 04:30:20PM +0100, David Howells wrote: >> The four calls implemented by Linux are: >> >> (*) int setpag(void) >> >> Set Process Authentication Group number. This could easily be >> moved into the kernel proper, with the PAG being stored in or >> depending from the task structure somehow. >> >> This would then obviate the need for OpenAFS to mangle the >> setgroups and getgroups syscalls.
> Has been proposed many times in the context of Coda. Perhaps > now that there are 2 filesystems in the tree that want > something like this we can afford the extra int in the task > structure.
Make that 3. We would be able to make good use of the same feature for strong authentication on NFS.
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