[Cc's trimmed] On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 12:15:24AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > How 'bout "anyone who can kill the process holding the lock?" > > > > + file owner ( + root ). > > Which processes can't root kill?
Zombies? :) > > 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. > > Hey, I'm the one who gave you write access to it. If I didn't want you > write-locking it, I wouldn't give you write access, now wood eye? Yes, but I wrote a program that knows when I move between here and Toronto. That program automatically updates ~wes/FreeBSDmarkers. Unfortunately, I left a small bug in that program (it doesn't unlock and it doesn't end itself). To make matters worse, since this was the iteration where I move to Toronto, I probably won't be reading mail for a couple days (or more). You'll have to try and contact root (or just crash the machine). Fortunately for you, r...@freebsd.org is fairly responsive... :) But in the meantime, everyone else, including you, is locked out of that file......which is pretty bad since my buggy program had another bug I forgot to mention: it accidentally removed all entries from the file except mine. I hope you don't use that file for anything important..... Gosh, and I thought I was being smart by using mandatory locks so that your file would get badly damaged it someone else tried modifying it while my program also modified it. > Or better yet, implement file ACLs so I can grant read/write to everyone BUT > you. Of course, I can do that now by creating goup "nothoek" right? ;^) Well, that would work, too. :-) -- 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
