On 26 Aug 2002, Alan Cox 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
I didn't say it's a must -- for now.
Thunder
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