woods@??? said:
> Hmmm..... that's a very interesting approach!
> It would certainly make a lot of sense in a micro-kernel type of
> system where the filesystem was running as a privileged user process!
Its actually there as a left over from the userspace nfsd, which
setfsuid()'s when accessing disk data to send out to an nfs client.
Nigel.
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