On Wednesday 07 December 2016 18:08, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > This is a problem with advisory locking. The fact that anyone can > create an exclusive lock on a file they can only read! Is this > behavior appropriate? > > <URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-security/1996-Novembe > r/msg00026.html>
Whereas if it were mandatory locking, enforced by the OS, it wouldn't be a problem? Here's that URL without the indent and word-wrapping: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-security/1996-November/msg00026.html -- Steven "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." - Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
