Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: DoS with POSIX file locks? | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:39:04 +0100 |
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> but the point is that with unix sockets you can send inodes to other > processes.. who don't share files_struct
In which case the other process won't be able to manipulate (unlock/upgrade/etc) the lock, since it doesn't own the lock (unless it shares files_struct with the original process).
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