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

[David Thompson]

I misspoke slightly originally.  The cache manager known what PAGs exist (so 
it can do garbage collection).  What's not known directly is what (if any) 
processes are attached to those PAGs.  You have to search all the processes to 
get that information.

I will let someone else comment on the AIX code.

Dave

Mike Fedyk wrote:
>Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>So, you don't even know if a pag id is in use in the much lauded aix pag 
>implementation?