Re: "per-process" limits (was: Showstopper list)
Alexander Kjeldaas (astor@guardian.no)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:00:34 +0200
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:15:05PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> The first problem doesn't occur if credential changes are
> broadcast instead of being physically shared.
> Both problems could be fixed if the relevant procedures in the
> kernel would take explicit "effective credentials" parameters
> instead of retrieving them from the task struct.
>
If you can manage to do this without any significant performance
degradation, I think it is a very good idea. access() is currently a
hack.
astor
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