On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 15:39 +0100, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote: > 2017-11-27 1:26 GMT+01:00 Solar Designer <so...@openwall.com>: > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 12:43:47PM +0100, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote: > > > 2017-11-24 11:53 GMT+01:00 David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> > > > : > > > > From: Alan Cox > > > > > Sent: 22 November 2017 16:52 > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:01:46 +0100 Salvatore Mesoraca <s.meso > > > > > rac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Disallows O_CREAT open missing the O_EXCL flag, in world or > > > > > > group writable directories, even if the file doesn't exist > > > > > > yet. > > > > > > With few exceptions (e.g. shared lock files based on > > > > > > flock()) > > > > Why would "shared lock files based on flock()" need O_CREAT without > > O_EXCL? Where specifically are they currently used that way? > > I don't think that they *need* to act like this, but this is how > util-linux's flock(1) currently works. > And it doesn't seem an unreasonable behavior from their perspective,
I thought that too, specifically I reasoned that using O_EXCL would defeat the purpose of the _shared_ flock(), wouldn't it? Ian.
