Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Sep 2002 18:40:51 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Initial support for struct vfs_cred [0/1] | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org> writes:
>> You are forgetting that the fscred might simultaneously be >> referenced by an open struct file. Are you saying that this >> file should suddenly see its credential change? > No, it cannot be referenced by an open struct file because you > copy the structure, not pointers to it.
So you are proposing to optimize for the rare case of setuid(), instead of the more common case of file open()?
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