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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Hi!

> The conclusion: it's cannot be implemented without slowdown.
> So ignore my patch.

Of course it can.

One possibility would be to implement it as ptrace(SETUID) and only
allow it if we know other task is not in kernel. [And then cean up any 
remaining problems.]

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