Re: problems with changing UID/GID

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:01:10 -0700


On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:35:10PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:

Locking does absolutely nothing for the problem of checking file
access with one set of credentials, and then doing the subsequent file
operation with another set of credentials.

Can we not lock creds at the syscall level? Ick... shoot me for saying
this :)

--cw
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