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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:35:35AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > No muss, no fuss.  So where is the race?
> > Mike had the only justification so far -- that of permissions of the
> > file.
> 
> Think multiple instances of syslogd.

You are going to have to help me out a little bit more -- I can think of
no problems with what I proposed vs. the existing way.  Both have a race
of which daemon opens the file first.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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