Re: problems with changing UID/GID

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 13:12:07 EST


On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:42:27AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:

    I don't think this is cool. I mean, think of how many times we use
    it, who will eat the overhead?

We use it almost never... a few times per process at most. And the
overhead will be nonexistent except in cases where the caller has to
wait on the lock --- and in those cases it seems totally reasonable
they *should* have to wait.

    Basically everyone. (And BTW, if we can't even afford one lock per
    module, how could we efford one jock per job? There are definitely
    more.)

I'm not sure what you mean here.

  --cw
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