Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:14:11 -0400


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:

[...]

> No, I think the answer there is to do all the same things for "struct
> group" as we do for user.
>
> Yes, it would mean that the primary group is _really_ primary, but from a
> system management standpoint that's probably preferable (ie you can give
> group read-write access to a person without giving group "resource" access
> to him)

No good. Some setups (e.g. Red Hat) have a group for each user.

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