Re: current->uid is zero ?!

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On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:26:35PM +0300, MHD.Tayseer wrote:
> Mattia Dongili wrote:
[...]
> >second guess: maybe has something to do with the uid eventually
> >assigned through mount options?
> > 
> >
> let me guess ? umm YANQ :)
> thank you for pointing me to the answer
> nice guessing :)

well, wait. the second one was a real blind guess :)

I found this around the net:

"...the fsuid, a Linux-specific user ID used by NFS servers and the like.
(It's been added so that processes can assume the UID of different users
without exposing themselves to signals from those users.)"
			(Message-ID: <2dLzv-6rj-7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)

bye
-- 
mattia
:wq!

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