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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Introduce BSD-style user credential [3/3]
    torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)  wrote on 30.08.02 in <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208302110280.1524-100000@home.transmeta.com>:

    > One thing that may be interesting (I certainly think it migth be), would
    > be to add a "struct user_struct *" pointer to the vfs_cred as well. This
    > is because I'd just _love_ to have that "user_struct" fed down to the VFS
    > layer, since I think that is where we may some day want to put things like
    > user-supplied cryptographic keys etc.
    >
    > The advantage of "struct user_struct" (as opposed to just a uid_t) is that
    > it can have information that lives for the whole duration of a login, and
    > it's really the only kind of data structure in the kernel that can track
    > that kind of information.

    In that case, wouldn't "struct session" be a better name?

    MfG Kai
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