Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but

[Alexander Viro]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> This does not work.  Example:
> 
>   1. JamieEmacs loads file using MAP_PRIVATE.
>   2. Something else writes to the file.
>   3. Scroll to the bottom of the file in JamieEmacs.  It displays some
>      of the newly written data, though not all of it.
> 
> --> Wrong editor semantics.

--> Wrong permissions or hopelessly crappy source control system.

At point 2 you are _already_ screwed.  Depending on who hits (hell,
what's the equivalent of :x in Emacsese?) first, one of you is
going to lose results of editing.  Doctor, it hurts when I do it...

If you want versioning - use source control system.  Or go play
with DEC cra^WOSes.  In RSX that "feature" sucked (and so did
editor semantics, but that's a separate story).

Without versioning - see above.