[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, David Howells wrote:
> 
>  (1) PAG (Process Authentication Group) support. A PAG is ID'd by a unique
>      number, and is represented in memory as a structure that has a ring of
>      associated authentication tokens.
> 
>      Each process can either be part of a PAG, or it can PAG-less - in which
>      case it has no authentication tokens.
> 
>      Two new syscalls are added: setpag and getpag.

I think the code looks pretty horrible, but I think we'll need something
like this to keep track of keys. However, I'm not sure we should make this
a new structure - I think we should make the current "tsk->user" thing
_be_ the "PAG". 

		Linus