In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes : >While this may be a good idea, I'm hesitant about races that it may >introduce. This is the classic point of attack: do something between >steps of a formerly atomic operation that was made non-atomic. I >can't think of anything off the top of my head, but I'm still >concerned.
We have ways of closing the race if need be, but they're all slightly kludgy, but I am not overly concerned about those races as long as the default is to not give access. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
