> 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?
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