On Jan 28, 2008 1:13 PM, Till Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008 17:22:07 Victor Lowther wrote: > > Patches welcome. Remember to take into account cleaning the stale > > lockfiles in case of system reboot, including the issues surrounding > > PID and datestamp checking. > > In opposite to /tmp, /var/lock is cleaned in Fedora on startup. Is this not > the case on debian? I guess cleaning /var/lock on startup is only sane. But I > guess to make this really sure, every maintainer of pm-utils for a distro has > to make sure that that the lockfile is really removed on startup. A sample > script could be added to pm-utils and a note in the README.
In Ubuntu (which is my daily use distro), /var/lock happens to be cleaned on boot by virtue of it being mounted as a tmpfs filesystem. However, there is nothing in the FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html) that says /var/lock must (or even should) be cleaned on reboot, whereas /tmp does have a recomendation to do so. I agree that a sample cleaning script would be nice to have, and would get rid of any potential need for PID/datestamp checking. > Regards, > Till > > _______________________________________________ > Pm-utils mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils > > _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
