Re: DoS with POSIX file locks?

[Miklos Szeredi]

> but the point is that with unix sockets you can send inodes to other
> processes.. who don't share files_struct

In which case the other process won't be able to manipulate
(unlock/upgrade/etc) the lock, since it doesn't own the lock (unless
it shares files_struct with the original process).

Miklos
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