Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 14:29:50 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, Barnacle Wes <softweyr@xmission.com>, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's /var/mail permissions Message-ID: <823.834182990@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 14:05:23 PDT." <199606072105.OAA00533@precipice.shockwave.com>
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In message <199606072105.OAA00533@precipice.shockwave.com>, Paul Traina writes: >Mail locking, to be effective, must be soley performed through the use of >the flock() call on the mail file itself. > >Locking schemes relying on other mechanisms are not effective. say what ? I'd better read up man the manpages for rename(2) to see what changed there... What do you mean when you say "not effective" ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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