On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:24:40PM +1100, James Morris wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Al Viro wrote: > > > > > + struct { > > > + uid_t uid; > > > + gid_t gid; > > > + mode_t mode; > > > + u32 osid; > > > + } ipc; > > > > 'osid' should be converted into 'secid' someday. > > Eh? Do you mean the field name there or the actual output? Either is > trivial, of course, but the latter is up to userland folks and the > former alone seems to be rather pointless... I was thinking in terms of the kernel API, where 'secid' is the preferred name for security identifiers ('sid' being an SELinux-specific term and also conflicting with 'session id'). Given that it's exposed to userland, I guess it's too late.