lock file question

[Olof Johansson]

linas at austin.ibm.com wrote:

> Its not clear to me if security is a concern here.  A cracker could write
> code that does this access and ignores the contents of /var/lock...
> (or, more easily, starts client A, mv /var/lock/LCK..librtas /var/lock/bogus,
> and then starts client b...)

Anyone who has access to /dev/mem can do much worse damage than that which ever way you look at it.

John's solution seems to help serialize access to parts of the RTAS buffers between the legitimate
and well-behaved users of it. Right?


-Olof

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