Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:39:50 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/59] Introduce credentials |
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> We get a number of things: > > (1) Multiple credential changes all happen simultaneously (setresuid() for > example). The new set of credentials is committed with a single RCU > assignment.
Makes sense - except for the question of bounding memory utilisation.
> > I've never seen credentials of any kind showing in profiles so why do we > > need this ? > > I'm not sure what you mean by that. Are you talking abo
Sorry I was assuming this was performance driven in fact the reasons are totally different.
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