> 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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