Feature changed by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #312216, revision 3 Title: deprecate /var/lock openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: - /var/lock should be deprecated - it never was really used properly on - SUSE Linux - using lockdev didn't really help either as only few - programs actually use it and it's not bug free (should be setuid - instead of setgid lock) The suggestion would be to patch programs to - use flock() on the device fd instead which would solve all problem wrt - permissions ans stale lock files. + /var/lock should be deprecated + * it never was really used properly on SUSE Linux + * using lockdev didn't really help either as only few programs actually + use it and it's not bug free (should be setuid instead of setgid lock) + The suggestion would be to patch programs to use flock() on the device + fd instead which would solve all problem wrt permissions ans stale lock + files. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581884 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking2 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312216