Re: AIC 5.1.18 _broken_

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:43:43 +0100 (GMT)


On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Does any quota utility mmap() the quota file? That is the big question.

If it _does_, what happens? If it is possible to oops/corrupt the kernel
then I say fix it. If is it just a case that read() may return slightly
old data, or similar, then sod it :-)

Chris

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