Re: Why is chmod(2)?

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:30:27 +0200

Harald Koenig wrote:
> but you still have to mark that file being `opened' (in use),
> or how do you avoid race conditions between open() and chmod() ?

Of course, the in code inode reference count is incremented.
That's all.

-- Jamie

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