Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:54:04 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current panics in mount(2) Message-ID: <20010122105404.F7240@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200101221827.NAA40361@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:27:20PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101230059070.29544-100000@besplex.bde.org> <200101221827.NAA40361@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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* Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> [010122 10:27] wrote: > <<On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:28:11 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said: > > > Somehow there were few problems when `struct mtx' was added to > > `struct ucred'. The critical args were probably usually 0. > > It's a bug that mount(2) uses a bare `struct ucred' and not a > well-defined, user-exportable credential structure (like struct > cmsgcred used for SCM_CREDS ancillary data). I looked at fixing this once, but got scared off because of binary compatibility issues. Would 'fixing' mount to use cmsgcred be acceptable? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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