proposed new Unix QFS Info level

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:36:10PM -0800, Conrad Minshall wrote:
> For this interface you might want to specify that the number of SIDs
> must be either zero or equal to the number of supplementary gids.
> Then again, imagine a server for some reason is only able to determine
> gid=>SID mappings for some but not all of the gids, in which case we
> should define a structure which preserves the gid/SID correspondence.

Just asking -- why is that correspondence important? Are
they naturally based on a mapping at all? I think you could
imagine servers where both sets of data comes from totally
different sources. And secondary SIDs don't have to be
groups at all. sidHistory being the example here.

Volker
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