On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:12:59PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Making the credentials a monolithic block like you appear to be
> doing just doesn't make sense. If you look at the way things like
> fsuid/fsgid/groups[] are used, you will see that almost all those that
> filesystems that care are making their own private copies.
I'm not looking at things from the filesystem's point of view, so
much as for threads and aio, where rlimits and identificantion needs
to be shared between contexts.
-ben
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