[Devel] Re: [PATCH 4/6] BC: user interface (syscalls)

[Alan Cox]

Ar Mer, 2006-08-23 am 09:50 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:43:16 +0400
> Kirill Korotaev <dev at sw.ru> wrote:
> 
> > +asmlinkage long sys_set_bclimit(uid_t id, unsigned long resource,
> > +		unsigned long *limits)
> 
> I'm still a bit mystified about the use of uid_t here.  It's not a uid, is
> it?

Its a uid_t because of setluid() and twenty odd years of existing unix
practice. 

Alan