Feature changed by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #308360, revision 2 Title: use lockdev openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Description: Ever since resmgr was dropped there is no way for unprivileged users to lock a device file such as /dev/ttyS0 even if the user has access to the device. A similar problem exists for usb devices in /dev/bus/usb. RedHat uses lockdev to solve the problem. It's a setgid 'lock' binary that manages the lock files. /var/lock is writeable by group 'lock' only. To be really useful the lockdev code needs to be cleaned up so a library is used to call the 'lockdev' helper binary. That way rpm would - automatically catch the dependency. Any program accessing serial ports - or usb devices as user could make use of lockdev, e.g. libgphoto2 - minicom ppp sane-backends screen uucp ... References: - http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/lockdev/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/lockdev + automatically catch the dependency. + Any program accessing serial ports or usb devices as user could make + use of lockdev, e.g. + * libgphoto2 + * minicom + * ppp + * sane-backends + * screen + * uucp + * ... + References: + http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/lockdev + http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/lockdev http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLOCKLOCKFILES -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308360