Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:38:57 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Committers <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? Message-ID: <19990823213857.B99022@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <199908232012.WAA78393@gratis.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 10:12:38PM %2B0200 References: <199908232012.WAA78393@gratis.grondar.za>
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On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 10:12:38PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > > In process-space, this is the kernel. In file-space, this should > be root. Processes that require mandatory locking must revoke > superuser before attempting locks. I don't like restricting the breaking of mandatory locks to the superuser. It could be restricted to specific users (say file owner + root)... -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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