On 4/10/07, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/10/07, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 4/10/07, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > UUCP is dead (and has been for years), so should the GID be.
> >
> > That's nice to hear. So what? Are you going to patch rxtx? Because
> > it's not going to work otherwise. Or maybe create a "lock" group that
> > provides that functionality and let it own /var/lock. The alternative
> > is virtually killing any program that relies on FHS specs to work...
>
> Whoa, a little aggressive here?

Busy day. Been a little nervous. Sorry :-)

> Anyway, feel free to look into this
> issue as you are the largest stakeholder. I'd recommend looking into
> what permissions other distros put on this directory. Clearly rxtx is
> not the real problem here.

It's already documented on rxtx's wiki:
http://rxtx.qbang.org/wiki/index.php/Installation#How_can_I_use_Lock_Files_with_rxtx.3F
The 'lock' group was implemented on RH just to substitute the dead
uucp. That's just a name question and nothing more, AFAIK. I don't
think it'd be a great problem to keep it for historical reasons...


bardo

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