[RFC][PATCH] loginuid through procfs (+ a question)

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Mon Jan 10 01:00:44 UTC 2005


Thanks for the comments, I plan to incorporate them tomorrow.  However,
one response inline:

Quoting Steve Grubb (sgrubb at redhat.com):
> On Friday 07 January 2005 16:58, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Attached is a first stab at setting loginuid through /proc/$$/loginuid.
> > Compiled and tested here.
> 
> OK, spent some time looking at the patch & have some comments:
> 
> line 66:
> +       length = snprintf((char *)page, count, "%u",
> +                               audit_loginuid(task->audit_context));
> 
> What if "audit_loginuid" returns a -1? How do we signify its not set. Besides, 
> -1 & %u don't get along.

This I was wondering about.  loginuid is a uid_t, which is
kernel_uid32_t, which is an unsigned int.  So I have to ask
again:  do we really want to use -1 as a default?

-serge




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