Re: [PATCH 3/2] scm: Stop passing struct cred

2013-04-04 Thread David Miller
From: ebied...@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:28:16 -0700 > > Now that uids and gids are completely encapsulated in kuid_t > and kgid_t we no longer need to pass struct cred which allowed > us to test both the uid and the user namespace for equality. > > Passing struc

[PATCH 3/2] scm: Stop passing struct cred

2013-04-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Now that uids and gids are completely encapsulated in kuid_t and kgid_t we no longer need to pass struct cred which allowed us to test both the uid and the user namespace for equality. Passing struct cred potentially allows us to pass the entire group list as BSD does but I don't believe the cost