[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] 2.6 kernel support anytime soon?Workarounds?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Douglas E. Engert wrote:

> Is there another way to look at the PAG problem rather then having to
> use the groups? Using the groups to store a PAG was a convenience for
> the AFS Kernel routines to find credentials associated with a process,
> but does not appear to be a requirement.

It's not. It never was.

> If push comes to shove, (as it appears it has!) could the AFS
> code in effect shadow the process table (or task_struct), so when a request
> is needed if it has not seen this process before, it will look at the parent
> and on up the chain to find a process it has seen that has a "PAG".

What happens when something forks, forks again, the intermediate child
exits, and the final child hasn't touched AFS yet?