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Re: setXid

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:29:28 -0700
Subject: Re: setXid
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
References: <200409201920.i8KJK8Vm024192@magilla.sf.frob.com>

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Roland McGrath wrote:
> To be fair, we haven't presented Linus et al with an actual implementation
> to fix the kernel semantics cleanly.

I have exchanged a lot of emails on this topic with Linus and several
others.  The main point they disagree with you is ...

> I have never been in favor of a per-thread ID extension.

They definitely want to preserve this and therefore any kernel solution
is as nonatomic as the userlevel implementation. (not my analysis).

I think this is as good as we'll get it any time soon (or ever).

- --
? Ulrich Drepper ? Red Hat, Inc. ? 444 Castro St ? Mountain View, CA ?
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