Previously Avery Pennarun wrote: > Here's my thought: rather than creating a lockfile for the filename of the > requested device (eg. /dev/modem --> /var/lock/LCK..modem) we can create a > lockfile for the target of the symlink (eg. /dev/modem --> /dev/ttyS2 --> > /var/lock/LCK.ttyS2). There has been some discussion about this on the FHS list, and the issue has recently come up again. The consensus seems to be to use a liblockfile which makes the lockfile using the real devicename, and perhaps a symlink with the other name as well. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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