Re: problems with changing UID/GID

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 15:01:10 EST


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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