Ar Mer, 2006-08-09 am 20:00 +0200, ysgrifennodd Edgar Toernig: > And killing them is not OK? "fuser -km /dev/cdrom" already covers both > cases, mounted somewhere and opened for special access. fuser is quite easy to race, it doesn't handle all sorts of corner cases like namespaces either. Its a crude blunt instrument that sometimes works and is very slow. > Sorry if I sound a little bit anal. IMO, a generic revoke is a pretty > sharp sword which is given to ordinary users and I have a very uneasy > feeling. They can dig in the innards of other people's processes - a > clean headshot by root is something different ... I can see your concern about arbitary files, but I'm not sure it holds simply because the tricks already exist via other methods. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
