Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263914AbTEOENm (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 00:13:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263915AbTEOENm (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 00:13:42 -0400 Received: from windlord.Stanford.EDU ([171.64.19.147]:23695 "HELO windlord.stanford.edu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263913AbTEOENk (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 00:13:40 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Jan Harkes , David Howells , , , Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] PAG support, try #2 References: In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 14 May 2003 17:57:43 -0700 (PDT)") From: Russ Allbery Organization: The Eyrie Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:26:23 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) 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: 776 Lines: 14 Linus Torvalds writes: > Yeah, and the thing I think it _totally_ and utterly broken is that > there can be only one of these per process. > I don't see where the 1:1 idea comes from, except from a bad > implementation. If a single process is in possession of multiple sets of credentials at the same time, how does the file system code in the kernel know which ones to use for a given operation with a network file system? -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) - 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/