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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: sulogin usemask
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:46:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150930124638.GE1787@ws.net.home> (raw)



 Hi,

 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/1399 this discussion
 highlights that the code around 'usemask' is not robust enough.

 The 'volatile' does not mean atomic. 
 
 It would be nice to improve the code -- avoid the mask at all, or use
 pthread_mutex_lock() (note that you can use mmaped shared memory for
 the muttex and share the lock between forked processes, you don't
 have to use threads).

 Comments?

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

             reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 12:46 UTC|newest]

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2015-09-30 12:46 Karel Zak [this message]
2016-02-10 15:59 ` sulogin usemask Dr. Werner Fink

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