Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:43:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Niall Smart <niall@pobox.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907112242280.34006-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199907120140.TAA39424@harmony.village.org>
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On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907112031200.31726-100000@janus.syracuse.net> "Brian F. Feldman" writes:
> : I have this fixed in my latest code (on freefall of course). I did not
> : use an original stat because that's pointless, as it adds another race
> : condition. The only downside to my approach is that if it's a symlink
> : to a dev, the dev can get opened/closed, and d_open/d_close be called.
>
> How does the original stat add a race condition. You stat the file,
> open it, then fstat it. If the two match you know you're good. If
> they don't, you can detect that something bad has happened....
Ahh, I misunderstood you. In _this_ case you just proposed, the stat is
really pointless. What good would it do?
>
> Warner
>
>
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