NetApp Interview Question: How can you keep a process's data safe from an external process overwriting it.

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How can you keep a process's data safe from an external process overwriting it.

Anonymous

11 Jan 2013

I still have no idea what the answer is...

Anonymous

6 Oct 2014

No, there is nothing guaranteeing that the other processes has to respect your mutex. Your process's data is still vulnerable to external writes.

Anonymous

6 Oct 2014

using mutex you are restrict other processes from overwriting the data