Re: Thoughts about proc permission handling

Robert Mayer - Student wrote:
>
> If race conditions are acceptable, why not keep pstat() a system call
> but make it retrieve the information without doing any locking ?

It rather depends who we race with - the danger is that our underlying
process structures can dissappear from under us if we don't make sure we're
the only one playing with them.

                        Regards,
                        Dave
Received on Mon Dec 5 10:32:12 1994