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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:36:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001210213458.27612G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200012110043.eBB0hYV06366@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Brian Somers wrote:

> I chose /var/run because it's only writable by root.

But readable by the world.

  robert@alsvid:/data/fbsd-commit/src/lib/libposix1e> id
  uid=1000(robert) gid=1000(robert) groups=1000(robert), 0(wheel),
  5(operator), 68(dialer)
  robert@alsvid:/data/fbsd-commit/src/lib/libposix1e> lockf /var/run echo hi
  hi
  robert@alsvid:/data/fbsd-commit/src/lib/libposix1e> lockf /var/run sleep 1000000 

...

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services




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