Hi,
a fix that uses per-uid subdirectories below /var/lock/ has been
committed some time ago, see
40c7cb01ce52ece226a071808ec4e803ec14157b
The fix will be part of gkrellm 2.3.6 which hopefully will see a release
soon.
commit 40c7cb01ce52ece226a071808ec4e803ec14157b
Author: Bill Wilson <bi...@gkrellm.net>
Date: Mon Aug 8 15:53:14 2011 -0500
Store lockfiles under /var/lock/gkrellm-UID directories to make
lockfiles work for multiple users.
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index df6c9c3..9936a28 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ GKrellM Changelog
o ru.po from Roman Savochenko
o uk.po new translation from Roman Savochenko
o pt.po new translation from Ze based on pt_BR.po
+ * Bugfixes
+ o Store lockfiles under /var/lock/gkrellm-UID directories to make
+ lockfiles work for multiple users.
2.3.5 - Thu Oct 7, 2010
------------------------
diff --git a/src/winops-x11.c b/src/winops-x11.c
index 8d4267c..a7305e4 100644
--- a/src/winops-x11.c
+++ b/src/winops-x11.c
@@ -270,14 +270,15 @@ _gkrellm_get_lock(void)
gchar *lock_dir, *lock_file, *display, *s;
gchar buf[32];
- snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "LCK..%d", (gint) getuid());
+ snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "LCK..gkrellm");
#if defined(F_TLOCK)
- lock_dir = "/var/lock/gkrellm";
+ lock_dir = g_strdup_printf("/var/lock/gkrellm-%d", (gint) getuid());
if (!g_file_test(lock_dir, G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR))
mkdir(lock_dir, 0755);
lock_file = gkrellm_make_config_file_name(lock_dir, buf);
+ g_free(lock_dir);
display = XDisplayName(NULL);
if (display)
{
