Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:35:37 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.org, Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> Subject: Re: Changes to suser() and friends Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111021534530.48099-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011102170025.21159M-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > Just FYI, it looks like a number of other platforms also use struct ucred > * as their primary suser() argument, including OpenBSD. Shared drivers > appear to tend to have __FreeBSD__ ifdef's scattered around as a result. > > Also an FYI, we have countless places where a struct td * isn't passed > down, and suser() currently relies on curproc. Once we have td->td_ucred > ready, we'll need to fix all those, and more universally pass around the > td of choice. That was what I was saying earlier, but it is sometimes not obvious which thread should be passed... > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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