Gene Heskett wrote: > To whomever is in charge of the supposedly volatile LCK.. files in > /var/lock:
Whoever that may be, it's not the kernel. > Its my understanding that these files should be volatile when they > represent a USB usage, because a USB device can be unplugged instantly and > at any time. The device nicely and dutifully disappears from an 'ls /dev' > listing when a device is unplugged. > > Why is it then that the /var/lock/LCK..ttyUSB1 file is always left behind, > so it screws up any possibility of doing a nice clean reboot and restart > of the program that uses it? What program leaves this file behind? (The pid in there is no longer helpful, unless it got logged due to a segfault, but what was the last program used for serial stuff?) Anyway, it appears some programs automatically delete this file when the pid is not valid. Regards, Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
