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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2000 01:42:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
To:        clemensF <ino-waiting@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_quota.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006250140430.94644-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
In-Reply-To: <20000625001840.A1017@spotteswoode.de>

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> this should be more portable and future-save, right?

Actually, our suser() implementation is pretty non-portable.

However, using suser() rather than a credential check is better form. In
the former case, you are checking for the presence of special privileges,
while in the latter case, you are checking for a particular user id. As
such things as CAP_FOO become more common, the latter method is a quite
unneccessary obstacle.

Marius



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