Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce BSD-style user credential [3/3] | Date | Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:23:57 +0200 |
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On Saturday 31 August 2002 18:30, Trond Myklebust wrote: > >>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > > 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. > > No problem at all with this. Indeed I agree it makes a lot of sense... > > The only thing is if you'd allow me to do it as an incremental patch > to the initial one? > I don't see 'struct user_struct *' as replacing the existing 'uid' > entry, so there should be no need to change the existing API. Instead, > we can just add in the necessary call to alloc_uid() to > vfscred_create() and/or setfsuid()...
I really do like Kai's name suggestion 'struct session'.
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