Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:33:29 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? Message-ID: <v04210102b3e751851659@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908231125480.49952-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908231125480.49952-100000@picnic.mat.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 11:29 AM -0400 8/23/99, Chuck Robey wrote: >I think mandatory locking should exist, but only be available to root. >If a program needs this, it must run with root privs, so that ordinary >users cannot wedge the machine, but (as usual) root can shoot himself >in the foot (traditional Unix methodology). I don't think we want to force people into running their program as root just to get mandatory locking. Perhaps there would be a program with root-privs which would have to be run to register files which will have mandatory locking, but the program which manipulates those files shouldn't have to run as root. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?v04210102b3e751851659>