Re: sys_geteuid() quesion

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Fri May 28 2010 - 08:44:58 EST

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Rumen Bogdanovski <rbogdanovski@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Or simply how can I a module know who is calling its read or write?

The current task is always (except in interrupt context) available in
current, and its euid is returned by current_euid().

Andreas.

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