Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys
To: None <dsl@netbsd.org>
From: Elad Efrat <e@murder.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/23/2007 13:15:21
David Laight wrote:
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	dsl
> Date:		Sat Jun 23 09:02:13 UTC 2007
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/kern: kern_auth.c
> 	src/sys/sys: kauth.h
> 
> Log Message:
> Simplify the interfaces needed for sys_setgroups() and sys_getgroups().
> Exposed that the kauth code holds groups in an array, but removes some
> of the knowledge of the maximum number of groups.
> Allows the syscall code to copyin/out directly to/from the cred structure,
> this save a lot of faffing about with malloc/free even when compat code
> has to use 16bit groups.
> 
> 
> To generate a diff of this commit:
> cvs rdiff -r1.47 -r1.48 src/sys/kern/kern_auth.c
> cvs rdiff -r1.37 -r1.38 src/sys/sys/kauth.h
> 
> Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
> copyright notices on the relevant files.
> 

you are changing a critical kernel interface. where was this brought up
for discussion?

-e.