On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:38:18PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > __f_setown_uid() is same as __f_setown(), except that instead of assuming the > uid and euid of current process, it expects them to be passed in as > parameters. > > This interface will be useful when checkpointing and restarting an application > that has a 'file owner' specified for any of the application's open files. > The uid, euid of the process setting up the owner is saved in the checkpoint > image. When the application is restarted, the save uid and euid values are > restored.
There are only four callers of __f_setown in the kernel. I'd rather see __f_setown converted to take the arguments directly. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
