On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:03:13PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Harald Welte wrote:
> 
> > +   if ((!info || ((unsigned long)info != 1 &&
> > +                   (unsigned long)info != 2 && SI_FROMUSER(info)))
> > +       && (euid ^ p->suid) && (euid ^ p->uid)
> > +       && (uid ^ p->suid) && (uid ^ p->uid)) {
> 
> No doubt this was copied from somewhere else.  But why do people go to the
> effort of confusing readers by using "^" instead of "!="?  These aren't 
> bit-oriented values.

Well, I'd rather keep the new code as close as possible to the original
check_permission() code, to make it obvious that it's basically doing
the same thing.  I think if you want to clean this up, it could be an
additional patch on top of mine (once there is a final version and it
gets merged.

> Alan Stern

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