Re: Race-condition ?

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Gaëtan LEURENT) writes:

> David Kastrup wrote on 24 Jun 2005 23:01:50 +0200:
>
>> I fail to see the advantage of using chown, or using fopen and
>> fchown.  In both cases the file name can be changed to refer to
>> something else before the operation starts.
>>
>> The only situation where fchown offers any advantage is where you
>> _already_ have a file open, like when you write the file after fopen,
>> and then change its permissions.
>
> Yes, that is true. But we are exactly in the situation were fchown is
> useful.

I saw the detailed description afterwards.  You are right.  fchown
would be desirable to use where available.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum