On Thu, Sep 06, 2007, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On tor, 2007-09-06 at 11:06 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > I've seen a race condition here. The NCSA helper only reopens the file when > > it sees the modification time change. > > Right.. it should add a little margin and not reopen the file if it's > being modified just now.. You could stat() the file to see if the file size has changed. :P (Or you could just do it right. Maybe some better documentation should appear, coupled with that stat() change an a subsequent warning to stderr. eg "ERROR: File size changed; are you not atomically updating your password file! <see url X>" Adrian
