On Dec 14, 6:05am, m...@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [RFC] getgroups2 system call
| Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: | | > Don't you need a getuid2(pid_t pid)? | | uid, gid and pid are passed inthe FUSE header, so we aready have them. | | > Why don't you add separate fuse messages to send and retrieve this | > information? Then the kernel can notify if these have changed... | | That adds a lot of state in the kernel (you need to update creds on | process termination and setgroup(2) calls, which makes the thing even | harder to port. And on the performance front, new messages add lattency. | | At this point, I think I will fetch secondary groups through sysctl, | this seems to be the point of least resistance. I concur :-) christos
