Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:29:31 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic on 32bit arch |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > We have append-only files, and normal users should not be able to work > around that restriction.
Well, apparently Posix breaks this, and we're supposed to let pwrite() write anywhere in an O_APPEND file. So any security-related argument goes out the window.
J
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