Re: SUMMARY: GGI/X : the other way??

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:54:09 +0100 (BST)


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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