Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:42:19 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, void <float@firedrake.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd and kqueue Message-ID: <3BDD94FB.B9B87153@mindspring.com> References: <20011026233957.A9925@parhelion.firedrake.org> <20011026200436.A61058@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011027043342.A18231@parhelion.firedrake.org> <20011027001704.B2586@coffee.q9media.com> <20011027002622.C2586@coffee.q9media.com> <20011028180643.B59388@dragon.nuxi.com> <3BDCCFB2.1E5CFC49@mindspring.com> <20011028202345.A60175@dragon.nuxi.com> <3BDD8557.A2190693@mindspring.com> <20011029093252.A2425@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > 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. Not if you don't use O_CREAT; then they don't. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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