Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:54:52 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines? |
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> Well, but imagine you have a file /proc/my_secret_file from which you > are able to read from position A:a and B:b but not from position > A:b. Concievably, checks for the file position could be bypassed because of > this race... I know this is kind of dumb example but I can imagine someone
Unlikely as the ppos passed to the driver is a private copy and the user could equally use pread/pwrite to specify that offset.
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