On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 08:25:59AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > I don't like restricting the breaking of mandatory locks to the > > superuser. It could be restricted to specific users (say file owner + > > root)... > > How 'bout "anyone who can kill the process holding the lock?"
+ file owner ( + root ). Otherwise I would be able to lock ~wes/FreeBSDmarkers and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it until either notifying me or notifying root about the process I accidentally left hanging. [Not that I'm likely to ever need more than an advisory lock on that particular file, but the principle... :-] Hm. ``chmod go-"MayLock" ~wes/Fre*'' The sticky bit could be used. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
