Re: [RFC] SO_PEERSEC - security credentials for Unix stream sockets

[James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, David S. Miller wrote:

> I'm fine with this conceptually, although the earliest I could put
> this into the tree is 2.6.1 although I have a hunch that I'll be
> asked to defer something like this to 2.6.2, but who knows.

No problem, it will hopefully get more testing and feedback in the 
meantime.  I'll resubmit it sometime after 2.6.0.

> The one thing I don't like is the ifdef conditionalized member of
> the sock struct.  We should move away from config variables changing
> structure layouts.  Even a "void *sk_security;" would be better.

Ok.


- James
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James Morris
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