On Mar 23, 2005, at 17:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
Well one question is "does it make sense to make a keyring session a
part
of the call_usermodehelper() API?". As it appears that only one caller
will ever want to do that then I'd say no, and that it should be some
specialised thing private to the key code and the call_usermodehelper()
implementation.
So unless you think that a significant number of callers will appear
who
are actually using the new capability then it would be better to keep
the
existing call_usermodehelper() API.
I'm fairly sure that OpenAFS or other AFS clients will need to make use
of
this when they move to the kernel keyring system. I had a discussion
with
Jeffrey Hutzelman on this topic a couple days ago on OpenAFS-Devel. The
OpenAFS cache manager would want to call into userspace to convert
between
Kerberos and AFS tickets/tokens.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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