Re: [PATCH] Initial support for struct vfs_cred [0/1]

From: Luca Barbieri (ldb@ldb.ods.org)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 10:35:03 EST

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> It is a serious concern. Inventing new, subtle behavior differences
> between user and kernel threads is, in a word, gross. It's certain
> to bite people in the future.
So you are suggesting that it's better to slow down *all* threads so
that it's possible to have kernel threads with automatically shared
credentials?
BTW, signals and rescheduling (unless PREEMPT=y) don't work
automatically for the same reason.

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