Re: problems with changing UID/GID

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
26 Aug 2002 18:16:59 +0100

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 15:58, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> I personally like the task->cred->cr_uid, etc. approach. Helps a lot.

It changes the whole semantics of every security test in Linux, and
breaks most of them totally. Our syscalls know the uid is constant
during the call

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