Re: [PATCH 00/59] Introduce credentials

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Aug 27 2008 - 10:01:08 EST

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> The wrappings are there to make the implementation of copy-on-write credentials
> easier.

What do we get from copy-on-write credentials ? I've never seen
credentials of any kind showing in profiles so why do we need this ?

Alan

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