Re: [PATCH 2.6.5-mm4] sys_access race fix

Jamie Lokier
2004-04-14T07:11:14Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Do races in access() actually matter? I mean, some other process could
> change things a nanosecond after access() has completed and the value which
> the access() caller received is wrong anyway.

What about the effect access() has on other callers? It temporarily
changes current->fsuid, so fs operations in other completely
independent threads are affected.

-- Jamie