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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 17:17:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX message queues
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 pwaechtler@mac.com wrote:

> OTOH I can't see a _big_ problem when a process with sufficient
> permissions can trash the message queues - otherwise I wonder why file
> permissions are granted "per user" and not "per process".

yes - furthermore, processes from the same user can 'trash' queues anyway,
via ptrace() or mmaping /proc.

	Ingo

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