[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4][cr]: Define __f_setown_uid()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:38:18PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> __f_setown_uid() is same as __f_setown(), except that instead of assuming the
> uid and euid of current process, it expects them to be passed in as parameters.
> 
> This interface will be useful when checkpointing and restarting an application
> that has a 'file owner' specified for any of the application's open files.
> The uid, euid of the process setting up the owner is saved in the checkpoint
> image. When the application is restarted, the save uid and euid values are
> restored.

There are only four callers of __f_setown in the kernel.  I'd rather see
__f_setown converted to take the arguments directly.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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