Package: lockfile-progs
Version: 0.1.10
the program lockfile-create automatically adds the .lock extension to the
supplied filename. but it does not talk about that in its manpage.
the C function lockfile_create does NOT add a .lock extension.
(the program dotlockfile does NOT add .lock extension and even explicitly sais
this in its manpage.)
I had bad experiences which made me find this bug:
i wrote a C program which locks a directory using a lockfile. in order to be
consistent i wanted to use some library and found liblockfile.
then i wrote a shellscript which should interact with the C-program. it must
also lock the directory with the same lockfile of course. so i found
lockfile-progs and expected it to have the same behaviour as the c function
it uses. and bang there was the problem:
lockfile_create("foobar",10,0); -> creates "foobar"
lockfile-create foobar -> creates "foobar.lock"
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