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From: zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: lockf and the SVID, (Was "Re: Wanted: lockf system call source")
Message-ID: <1384@umd5>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 22:53:12 EST
Article-I.D.: umd5.1384
Posted: Thu Dec  4 22:53:12 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 05:38:58 EST
References: <5413@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2264@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Summary: There are good security reasons to limit locking to legal writers

Requiring write permission for file locking is a good way to ensure that
malicious users can't latch up your application by setting file locks at
inopportune times...
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