Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Umm... How about "use credentials of opener for everything"? > > If you want to audit every single filesystem for any code that uses > credentials for anything and add all the right kernel APIs and make > sure the filesystem uses them and somehow keep screwups from getting > added down the line, then okay I guess. As far as I know, we don't > even *have* an API for "open this device node using this struct cred > *". You can use override_creds() too. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html