Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: setuids() like setgroups() ? | Date | 16 Apr 1999 13:21:05 +0200 |
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In article <cistron.19990416130729.A24353@lucifer.fast.no>, Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@fast.no> wrote: >I've probably said this many times before, but passing being able to >pass an UID from one process to another using IPC is more flexible >than the above.
Yes, but if you have a lot of UIDs to switch between (for apache each request can potentially be for a different UID) it would mean a context switch for every request. I don't know ho much that would influence performance.
Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
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