Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:52:12 -0700 From: Seth Kingsley <seth.kingsley@windriver.com> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Adrian Browne <Adrian@nu-earth.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcsh.cat Message-ID: <20010615195212.B95977@meow.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <200106151308.OAA07742@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>; from richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:08:03PM %2B0100 References: <200106151308.OAA07742@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:08:03PM +0100, Richard Tobin wrote:
> > P> The string pointed to by path1 shall be treated only as a charact=
er
> > P> string and shall not be validated as a pathname.
>=20
> I have heard on several occasions of peope using symlink(2) to
> atomically store some small piece of information for locking purposes.
Netscape for instance, uses ~/.netscape/lock as a symlink to the IP and
PID that it's running on:
uniq{sethk}254% ll ~/.netscape/lock
lrwxr-xr-x 1 sethk wheel 20 Jun 15 15:34 /home/sethk/.netscape/lock
-> 204.216.28.154:27906
--=20
|| Seth Kingsley || Platforms Lab Opps || seth.kingsley@windriver.com ||
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