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Subject[PATCH 2.5.30+] Fourth attempt at a shared credentials patch

--On Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:55:05 PM +0200 Trond Myklebust
<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:

> What if one thread is doing an RPC call while the other is changing
> the 'groups' entry?

Gah. Good point. Ok, I've added locking to the cred structure to handle
this. Here's my new patch with those changes made:

http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/patches/misc/cred-2.5.30-5.diff.gz

I've gone through all the code again, and don't see any other places where
locking is really necessary. Feel free to point them out to me if you see
any.

Dave McCracken

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