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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper()
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On Mar 23, 2005, at 17:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well one question is "does it make sense to make a keyring session a
> part
> of the call_usermodehelper() API?". As it appears that only one caller
> will ever want to do that then I'd say no, and that it should be some
> specialised thing private to the key code and the call_usermodehelper()
> implementation.
>
> So unless you think that a significant number of callers will appear
> who
> are actually using the new capability then it would be better to keep
> the
> existing call_usermodehelper() API.

I'm fairly sure that OpenAFS or other AFS clients will need to make use
of
this when they move to the kernel keyring system. I had a discussion
with
Jeffrey Hutzelman on this topic a couple days ago on OpenAFS-Devel. The
OpenAFS cache manager would want to call into userspace to convert
between
Kerberos and AFS tickets/tokens.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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