Subject: Re: Addition to force open to open only regular files
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/28/2000 22:24:29 
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:56:43PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > There are two reasons.  First, we have no knowledge of the saved uid
> > in userland.  There's no way to know what it is.
> 
> Why don't we just add a getsid(&uid_t, &gid_t) syscall?

Agree.