Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 06:31:59 -0800 From: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us> To: <phk@freebsd.org>, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: revoke(2) redux... Message-ID: <BA2DAFDF.17D6B%pscott@skycoast.us> In-Reply-To: <1412.1040739354@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> I think you missed the fine point in the "kick everybody *else* > off" comment. Ahhh. I guess you mean that revoke() would change to do that. You're right, I did miss your point. > The point is you cannot serialize against other processes. But that's the point of serialization. Anyway, if init is the only process opening a tty, serialization would be inherent. But, like I said earlier, I'm no master of init code. I've just never heard of any problems springing from this, so I offer a possible explanation of why it seems (to me) to work. -- Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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