Using thread-specific credentials on Linux in Samba with glibc.

[Jonathan Nieder]

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 2¢,
Jonathan