Re: current->uid is zero ?!

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

On 7/1/05, MHD.Tayseer <gilmour@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone:
> i'm implementing mkdir so i must set the uid and the gid of my newly
> created inode, but i've noticed that all of :
> current->uid
> current->euid
> current->fsuid
> are zeros ? am i doing something wrong or this result is right and i'm
> missing something ?

Just trying my first guess: are you running mkdir as root?

> and what is the fsuid ? "difference from uid ?

second guess: maybe has something to do with the uid eventually
assigned through mount options?

-- 
mattia
:wq!

--
Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel.
Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/
FAQ:           http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/