Re: current->uid is zero ?!

Hello!

On 7/1/05, MHD.Tayseer <gilmour <at> scs-net.org> 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?

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