Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions (IBM developerWorks) [LWN.net]

David A. Wheeler writes about the prevention of race conditions on IBM developerWorks. "Learn what a race condition is and why it can cause security problems. This article shows you how to handle common race conditions on UNIX®-like systems, including how to create lock files correctly, alternatives to lock files, how to handle the filesystem, and how to handle shared directories (and in particular how to correctly create temporary files in the /tmp directory). You'll also learn a bit about signal handling."

Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions (IBM developerWorks)

Posted Oct 11, 2004 14:06 UTC (Mon) by Wummel (guest, #7591) [Link]

I like this article (and most of the others David Wheeler has written). It presents security measures in an understandable way for everyone, not just security experts. And he has real-world code and examples that work. This should be standard for all security related articles since it is a key component to get programmers to follow such recommendations.