Re: [PATCH 4/6] BC: user interface (syscalls)

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:29:42 +0100
Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ar Mer, 2006-08-23 am 09:50 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:43:16 +0400
> > Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > +asmlinkage long sys_set_bclimit(uid_t id, unsigned long resource,
> > > +		unsigned long *limits)
> > 
> > I'm still a bit mystified about the use of uid_t here.  It's not a uid, is
> > it?
> 
> Its a uid_t because of setluid() and twenty odd years of existing unix
> practice. 
> 

I don't understand.  This number is an identifier for an accounting
container, which was somehow dreamed up by userspace.

AFAICT it is wholly unrelated to user ID's.

(How does userspace avoid collisions, btw?)
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