Posted Aug 5, 2010 19:29 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Yama: not so fast by dpquigl
Parent article: Yama: not so fast
I also remember opposition to path-based frameworks quite distinctly.
"Ok I'll try to make this clearer with an example. We have three modules we will call them A B and C. A and B free their security information on a resource. C makes a check on whether or not it can free the resources. It returns that it cant for some reason. You now have a resource that has only 1 of the 3 security modules worth of information associated with it."
Use 'two-phase commit'. First, ask each module if it vetoes the decision to delete the resource. If everything is OK, then call the actual 'free_resource' functions.