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From: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documenting stat(2)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:00:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010118170023.A3694@thune.yy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A66D93C.8090500@AnteFacto.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101182150060.27730-100000@server.serve.me.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101182150060.27730-100000@server.serve.me.nl>; from maillist@chello.nl on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:52:02PM +0100

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:52:02PM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> I use lstat to check if a config file is a symlink, and if it is, it
> refuses to open it. 

Nice race condition.

mrc
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-19  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-18  7:05 Documenting stat(2) dmeyer
2001-01-18 11:53 ` Padraig Brady
2001-01-18 15:54   ` dmeyer
2001-01-18 20:52   ` Igmar Palsenberg
2001-01-19  1:00     ` Mike Castle [this message]
2001-01-20 19:39       ` Igmar Palsenberg
2001-01-19 10:18   ` Andreas Schwab
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-18  5:28 Eric S. Raymond
2001-01-18  6:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 12:56 ` Felix von Leitner

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