Re: Transitioning from existence-based lockfiles and /var/lock to flock
On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 09:07:21PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> There are also issues with NFS to consider.
If we talk about stuff not in /dev, which at least the original bug was
scoped to.
But in this case flock() on NFS is already better then /var/lock on a
local tmpfs. Okay we suddely could get overlocking, because flock
behaves differently. It's also likely that the old behaviour is already
broken in this case. Do you have an example of such behaviour?
Bastian
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