Re: [RFC] New authentication management syscalls

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Fri, 9 May 2003 14:31:47 +0100


On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 02:11:17PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> (3) settok(const char *fs, const char *key, size_t size, const void *data)

fs is the path to a mount point?

> Present data to the named filesystem as being the authentication token
> for the specified key (eg: an AFS cell). If accepted, this token should
> be stored in the PAG to which the calling process belongs.

s/filesystem/mount instance/

>
> struct file_system_type {
> ...
> int settok(struct file_system_type *fstype,
> const char *domain,
> size_t size,
> const void *data);
> };

This should go into super_operations instead.

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