Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:10:22 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? Message-ID: <37C1D4DE.3607D17C@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908231839440.49952-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey wrote:
>
> I think Garrett's fears are of folks unwittingly wedging machines too
> easily, so real mandatory locking ought to be restricted to programs
> that root can set up.
And those fears are well-founded, but your proposed solution just creates
another set of bottlenecks. Making mandatory locks available to any
process and giving root an avenue by which it can revoke the locks, by
whatever means, is a better solution. SIGKILL seems like an ideal candidate
to me.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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