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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: curthread vs. passing thread pointers around 
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Kirk McKusick wrote:

> So, while removing proc/thread parameters from existing functions
> is reasonable, we should consider whether they should be replaced 
> with pointers to credentials.




For that we have suser_cred(cred,...) elready.




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