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SubjectRe: Credentials test patch
On 9/17/07, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> A better way would be to compare fsuid/fsgid to uid/gid and to just take an
> extra ref on the incumbent cred object if they're the same, rather than always
> allocating a new one. That, I suspect, would speed up 99.99% of the cases.

Indeed. It's probably rare to have different values and for the case
I mentioned even more so since it happens before the first user code
gets executed.
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