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>>>>> " " == Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org> writes:

     > That's what the code did, unless I misunderstood it.  Anyway if
     > you want to give a different fsuid to a filesystem function,
     > you either pass credentials as a parameter (that means that you
     > change all the functions in the call chain to do that) or you

If you read through the beginning of the thread, you will see that
this is *exactly* what I'm proposing to do. Just not in this one
already very large patch.

Cheers,
  Trond
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