On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:55:46PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Also, the utmp/wtmp functions use mutexes to insure safe access. > That creates two problems, particularly on servers: > - When users have private copies of Cygwin with different mounts, > there can be several utmp/wtmp files. Having a global mutex isn't > helpful. > - If the utmp/wtmp files are unique, a user may not be have the > privilege to create a global mutex, so that no mutual protection > is achieved. > Both problems could be solved very simply by using file locking. > Should I do that some day?
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