Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:24:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: Speeding up swap |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Tom Vier wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:40:26AM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > Then one the file twice. With one fd, you can do your buffered, random > > accesses. With the other fd, you can do your non-buffered, sequential > > accesses. > wouldn't that defeat the purpose of restricting lseek? a malicious program > could just open the file twice.
A malicious program can open a file with O_SYNC, which is a far more vicious kind of attack. So I don't see what all the fuss is about.
-Dan
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