From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 23 18:39:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23C914FAC; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:39:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com (ppp6631.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.223]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06530; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:38:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA99488; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:38:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:38:57 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Mark Murray Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Greg Lehey , Poul-Henning Kamp , Matthew Dillon , FreeBSD Hackers , FreeBSD Committers , Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? Message-ID: <19990823213857.B99022@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> References: <199908232012.WAA78393@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199908232012.WAA78393@gratis.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 10:12:38PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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