On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 18:32 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:15:34PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:04 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > That implies to me you want to capture the value at mount time, and to > > > pass it in to the rpc_call creation, and only at very specific well > > > defined points where we interact with user space should we examine > > > current->utsname(). At which point there should be no question > > > of current->utsname() is valid as the user space process is alive. > > > > Why pretend that the filesystem is owned by a particular namespace? It > > can, and will be shared among many containers... > > If the only purpose of this is to fill in the auth_unix cred then > shouldn't it be part of whatever cred structures are passed around? So how does tracking it in a shared structure like the rpc_client help? If you consider it to be part of the cred, then it needs to be tracked in the cred... Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
