>>>>> " " == Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 04:30:20PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>> The four calls implemented by Linux are:
>>
>> (*) int setpag(void)
>>
>> Set Process Authentication Group number. This could easily be
>> moved into the kernel proper, with the PAG being stored in or
>> depending from the task structure somehow.
>>
>> This would then obviate the need for OpenAFS to mangle the
>> setgroups and getgroups syscalls.
> Has been proposed many times in the context of Coda. Perhaps
> now that there are 2 filesystems in the tree that want
> something like this we can afford the extra int in the task
> structure.
Make that 3. We would be able to make good use of the same feature for
strong authentication on NFS.
Cheers,
Trond
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