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Re: struct file reference at VFS level



On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 04:57:28PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> i don't know, but not in kauth_cred_t.  don't go linking systems
> together like that.  don't abuse kauth to shove some random other
> data you need simply because that's a place you found you could
> change.  the usage of it in VFS is as a consumer, not as a storage
> mechanism.

If it does not go into kauth_cred, then we need to add a field to 
many VFS methods. While there it may be interesting to add something
extensible, like a chaine list of typed values.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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