At 11:29 AM -0400 8/23/99, Chuck Robey wrote:
I think mandatory locking should exist, but only be available to root. If a program needs this, it must run with root privs, so that ordinary users cannot wedge the machine, but (as usual) root can shoot himself in the foot (traditional Unix methodology).
I don't think we want to force people into running their program as root just to get mandatory locking. Perhaps there would be a program with root-privs which would have to be run to register files which will have mandatory locking, but the program which manipulates those files shouldn't have to run as root. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [email protected] Senior Systems Programmer or [email protected] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
