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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)
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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?

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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