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

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Tue, 13 May 2003 13:23:48 -0500


Yes, handles it fine and used quite frequently, just have to set a new
pag (done automatically if it's really a new login and not just a new
xterm, or can start a command with 'pagsh' command to start it in a new
pag).

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 10:44 AM
> To: Linus Torvalds
> Cc: David Howells; Linux Kernel Mailing List;=20
> linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor=20
> and PAG support
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> On Maw, 2003-05-13 at 16:52, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I think the code looks pretty horrible, but I think we'll=20
> need something
> > like this to keep track of keys. However, I'm not sure we=20
> should make this
> > a new structure - I think we should make the current=20
> "tsk->user" thing
> > _be_ the "PAG".=20
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> With something like SELinux a PAG may belong to a role not to a user
> even though other limits like processes probably belong to=20
> the user as a
> whole.=20
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> How does AFS currently handle this, can two logins of the=20
> same user have
> seperate PAGs ?
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