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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: mmap unuseable for interactive application?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:50:53 +0100
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Peter <excessphase@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jul 18, 7:42 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@mssgmbh.com> wrote:
>
>> 'Again' -- the solution to your 'problem' is to use the existing
>> system facilities (which have existed 'since a long time') to
>> coordinate use of shared resources by independent applications and not
>> to whine about the fact that a lot of filesystems exists which don't
>> work like the Windows file system.
>
> OK -- educate me!
> What are the "existing system facilities" to prevent users from
> accessing some file?

cd /
rm -rf *

There is still some chance that a user might manage to access one of
his own files while deletion is in progress but since this won't be
reproducible, you can afterwards claim that it didn't happen.