cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:21:09PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
+> > Could we change 'td->td_ucred->cr_ruid != 0 || jailed(td->td_ucred)' to
+> > 'suser(td) != 0'?
+> 
+> No, because suser(td) checks the effective uid, not the real uid.  Which
+> is the reason I asked him to change it to that before committing, and why
+> Colin had to back out his commit also :-). Colin is preparing patches to
+> add a flag to suser_cred() to allow the caller to say they care about the
+> real uid. 

Thanks for clarification, but why actually do we care so much here about
real uid?

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