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Aucbvax.3044 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Sep 10 02:12:03 1981 locking >From chico!esquire!psl@Berkeley Thu Sep 10 02:06:51 1981 Steven Bellovin's note about daemons running afoul of the Interactive Sys. union of real & effective uid reminds me of a question that has been bothering me for a while -- Why Does Anybody Use Creat(II) As A Lock Mechanism? Link(II) works fine. There's no problem with root being treated differently than other uids. I have been using it for years with no problems (aside from the problems of dangling locks when a system crashes which creat() also suffers and which is not always a Bad Thing). So what is it that keeps people using creat(II)?

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