In message <pine.bsf.4.10.9907112031200.31726-100...@janus.syracuse.net> "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : I have this fixed in my latest code (on freefall of course). I did not : use an original stat because that's pointless, as it adds another race : condition. The only downside to my approach is that if it's a symlink : to a dev, the dev can get opened/closed, and d_open/d_close be called.
How does the original stat add a race condition. You stat the file, open it, then fstat it. If the two match you know you're good. If they don't, you can detect that something bad has happened.... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
