Re: One process with multiple user ids.

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From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 4:52 am

On Oct 2 2007 13:39, Giuliano Gagliardi wrote:

It would raise the complexity enormously. In the kernel, you
currently do if (current->uid == inode->i_uid) or so. If you were to
have multiple identities, that would evolve into a costly "if
(in_user_p(inode->i_uid))" or so, much like in_group_p does it at the
moment.
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Re: One process with multiple user ids., Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Oct 2, 4:34 am)
Re: One process with multiple user ids., Giuliano Gagliardi, (Tue Oct 2, 4:39 am)
Re: One process with multiple user ids., Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Oct 2, 4:52 am)