On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 07:20:17PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Yep. That is about the size of it. file * used to be passed to the > sysctl methods but it was removed several years ago because no one was > using it. Generally cred would be better... Alternatively we could eat one more pointer in task_struct and stash a reference to that sucker there, rather than adding an explicit argument (again, with cred instead of file). Not sure... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html