Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:32:56 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Subtle MM bug |
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Al has mentioned that he wants us to move towards a *BSD-like system > of credentials (i.e. struct ucred) that could be used here, but that's > in the far future. In the meantime, we cache RPC credentials in the > struct file...
struct ucred is also needed to get LinuxThreads POSIX compliant (sharing credentials between threads, but still keeping system calls atomic in relation to credential changes)
-Andi (who doesn't want to know how many security holes are in linux ported programs using threads and set*id() because of that)
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