[OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel Authentication Tokens (PAGs)

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:53:58 -0400


On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:48:16 -0700 Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> 
wrote:

> David Thompson wrote:
>
>> Because the current implementation doesn't know what PAGs currently
>> exist, it
>>
> Is that true on all platforms?

It is true on all platforms that nothing knows what PAG ID's exist.
Processes, tokens, and other auth-context-dependent data are all labelled 
with PAG ID's.  New ID's are allocated in sequence.