From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 9:30:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E77B158C3; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11JHWT-0003SR-00; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:26:01 -0600 Message-ID: <37C2AB77.52678981@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:25:59 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Mark Murray , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Greg Lehey , Poul-Henning Kamp , Matthew Dillon , FreeBSD Hackers , FreeBSD Committers , Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? References: <199908232012.WAA78393@gratis.grondar.za> <19990823213857.B99022@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > 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)... How 'bout "anyone who can kill the process holding the lock?" -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message