From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:00:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:00:37 -0500 Received: from phoenix.nanospace.com ([209.213.199.19]:52490 "HELO phoenix.nanospace.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:00:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:00:23 -0800 From: Mike Castle To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Documenting stat(2) Message-ID: <20010118170023.A3694@thune.yy.com> Reply-To: Mike Castle Mail-Followup-To: Mike Castle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3A66D93C.8090500@AnteFacto.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from maillist@chello.nl on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:52:02PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly dalgoda@ix.netcom.com and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/