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Re: Package file indexing


From: Pierre Neidhardt
Subject: Re: Package file indexing
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:21:10 +0100

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> writes:

> Not specifically, it just becomes more complex as you have to consider
> more issues. Like the mundane "what if one user is using a file, and
> another deletes it" to the more unusual "what if you can modify the file
> to crash or exploit processes run by other users".

What I have in mind is that only the daemon could update the database.
Regarding the concurrency issue, a mutex should do it I think.

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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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