Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:33:41 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flock() and chroot() Message-ID: <199603222333.SAA16544@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603212142.QAA13188@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Bill Paul" at Mar 21, 96 04:42:19 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the world, I had to walk into mine and say: > I've got a question concerning file locking: > > I got a bug report recently from a guy trying to use NIS inside a > chroot()ed environment. Apparently he's created a filesystem tree > which has the real /var and /dev mounted in it (I'm not sure how he > did this since he neglected to provide details -- I've asked him > to elaborate) and has set up a guest user that is placed in this > confined environment at login. Nevermind. He's mounting the filesystem using NFS. There's no point in thinking too hard about NFS file locking the way things are now. :) I'm going to try fixing the problem with _yp_dobind() this weekend. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= License error: The license for this .sig file has expired. You must obtain a new license key before any more witty phrases will appear in this space. =============================================================================
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