On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:38:18PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > __f_setown_uid() is same as __f_setown(), except that instead of assuming the > uid and euid of current process, it expects them to be passed in as parameters. > > This interface will be useful when checkpointing and restarting an application > that has a 'file owner' specified for any of the application's open files. > The uid, euid of the process setting up the owner is saved in the checkpoint > image. When the application is restarted, the save uid and euid values are > restored. There are only four callers of __f_setown in the kernel. I'd rather see __f_setown converted to take the arguments directly. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
