Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:54:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | Re: SUMMARY: GGI/X : the other way?? |
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> If revoke() can kill a mmap on a file, users can make servers crash.
Read a BSD man page on revoke(), its quite thorough. You will see that revoke is only permitted on character or block devices. And users don't own too many of them ;-)
> There is a patch: > http://linuxwww.db.erau.edu/mail_archives/linux-kernel/Dec_97/0946.html
A revised revoke() patch will be available shortly.
Chris
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