Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261759AbTEMPjy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 11:39:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261757AbTEMPjy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 11:39:54 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:29702 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261417AbTEMPjw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 11:39:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 08:52:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Howells cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, , Subject: Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support In-Reply-To: <8624.1052840360@warthog.warthog> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 24 On Tue, 13 May 2003, David Howells wrote: > > (1) PAG (Process Authentication Group) support. A PAG is ID'd by a unique > number, and is represented in memory as a structure that has a ring of > associated authentication tokens. > > Each process can either be part of a PAG, or it can PAG-less - in which > case it has no authentication tokens. > > Two new syscalls are added: setpag and getpag. I think the code looks pretty horrible, but I think we'll need something like this to keep track of keys. However, I'm not sure we should make this a new structure - I think we should make the current "tsk->user" thing _be_ the "PAG". Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/