[PATCH] enable /proc/$$/loginuid

[Leigh Purdie]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 13:28 -0600, Timothy R. Chavez wrote:

Although I think this bit is still up for discussion:

> Right, and such filtering already exists in the kernel and is mostly,
> if not completely, sufficient to meet this goal.

I absolutely agree with this:

> What I was getting
> at is that there may be a desire to do additional filtering that goes
> above and beyond what the kernel is capable of doing.  Thus. this is
> one reason why the audit daemon and not the kernel, should be used to
> write out to the actual log file.

Note though, that the Solaris approach of passing a pipe file descriptor
to the kernel may still be a viable alternative if people REALLY want to
go down this path (wouldn't recommend it though, based on all the
troubles Sun have had with this approach).

L.
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