From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 18:44:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265771513A; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com (ppp18335.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.15]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA12676; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:46:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA12047; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:45:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:45:23 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Wes Peters Cc: Mark Murray , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Greg Lehey , Poul-Henning Kamp , Matthew Dillon , FreeBSD Hackers , FreeBSD Committers , Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? Message-ID: <19990824214523.A11992@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> References: <199908232012.WAA78393@gratis.grondar.za> <19990823213857.B99022@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <37C2AB77.52678981@softweyr.com> <19990824175154.A8869@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990824175154.A8869@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:51:54PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:51:54PM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > > How 'bout "anyone who can kill the process holding the lock?" On further reflection, I'd go even further: anyone who can set the lock can break the lock. Presumably if they know enough to explicitly break the lock, then they know enough to know what they're doing. This is more-or-less like a chmod("-w").... -- 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