Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/8/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Absolutely not. We dont want to slow down kernel 'just in case a fool might >> want to do crazy things' > > Actually, I think it would make the kernel (negligibly) faster to bump > f_pos before the vfs_write() call.
This is a security risk. ---------------- other process: unlink(secrest_file) Thread 1: write(fd, large) (interrupted) Thread 2: fseek(fd, -n, relative) read(fd, buf) ---------------- BTW: The best thing you can do to a program where two threads race for writing one fd is to let it crash and burn in the most spectacular way allowed without affecting the rest of the system, unless it happens to be a pipe and the number of bytes written is less than PIPE_MAX. -- The secret of the universe is [EMAIL PROTECTED] NO CARRIER Friß, Spammer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
