Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 08:52:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support |
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On Tue, 13 May 2003, David Howells wrote: > > (1) PAG (Process Authentication Group) support. A PAG is ID'd by a unique > number, and is represented in memory as a structure that has a ring of > associated authentication tokens. > > Each process can either be part of a PAG, or it can PAG-less - in which > case it has no authentication tokens. > > Two new syscalls are added: setpag and getpag.
I think the code looks pretty horrible, but I think we'll need something like this to keep track of keys. However, I'm not sure we should make this a new structure - I think we should make the current "tsk->user" thing _be_ the "PAG".
Linus
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