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Re: Using thread-specific credentials on Linux in Samba with glibc.
Roland McGrath wrote:
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> Just to make things extremely clear, what we're hoping for is
>> an acknowlegement from the glibc maintainers that using syscall()
>> in this way to get per-process thread credentials on Linux
>> platforms is allowed by glibc, in that
[...]
> The context remains utterly muddy and we are not going to read a giant
> thread to tease out what you are asking. Show us an example of a use of
> the syscall function that you are seeking a clarification on the validity of.
Even better would be a patch to manual/<something>.texi making the
proposed clarification, I imagine. :)
My 2Â,
Jonathan