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

Oct 6, 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

Jan 11, 2013

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

Anonymous

Oct 6, 2014

using mutex you are restrict other processes from overwriting the data