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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:11:02AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Do races in access() actually matter? I mean, some other process could > > change things a nanosecond after access() has completed and the value which > > the access() caller received is wrong anyway. > > What about the effect access() has on other callers? It temporarily > changes current->fsuid, so fs operations in other completely > independent threads are affected. Huh? What does changing a field of tast_struct have to do with behaviour of some other threads? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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