On Sunday 01 September 2002 01:13, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 00:30, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > >>>>> " " == Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org> writes:
> >
> > > Then the rest of the code doesn't need to know at all that
> > > credentials are shared and is simpler and faster. We have
> > > however a larger penalty on credential change but, as you say,
> > > that's extremely rare (well, perhaps not necessarily extremely,
> > > but still rare).
> >
> > What if I, in a fit of madness/perversion, decide to use CLONE_CRED
> > between 2 kernel threads (i.e. no 'kernel entry')?
> You don't or you manually patch the task_struct of the other threads.
> This isn't a serious concern.
It is a serious concern. Inventing new, subtle behavior differences
between user and kernel threads is, in a word, gross. It's certain
to bite people in the future.
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