On 14 May 01 at 15:00, Khachaturov, Vassilii wrote:
> I had to communicate uid/gid from an application down
> to a driver, and discovered that uid and gid in user
> space are different from those in kernel space.
ncpfs uses 'unsigned long' in its ncp_mount_data_v4, as MIPS uses
'long' type for uid/gid. Unfortunately it still needs conversions
on some archs, so maybe using u_int64_t is just best solution
(AFAIK as MIPS unsigned long is 64bit, you have to use u_int64_t
if you want same type accross architectures).
Kernel part then just checks wheter uid == (__kernel_uid_t)uid and
gives up if they differ.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
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