On Sun 05 Nov 2000 at 20:43:20 +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> For the folks at home that are trying to follow what this is about
> here is some context:
> 
> before this thread moved here there was a proposal made to add another
> syscall to the kernel that performed the same functions as open but
> allowed the caller to pass a uid/gid pair as additional parameters.

*IF* we wanted to do anything like this, it would be better to
generalise it so it could be done with any system call, like indir(2)
(V7) or syscall(2).

-Olaf.
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