Aaron Isotton <aa...@isotton.com> writes: > The lock files never go stale (according to the manpage they should do > so after 5 minutes). Steps to reproduce: > > $ lockfile-create --retry 0 test > $ # wait more than 5 minutes > $ lockfile-create --retry 0 test > lockfile creation failed > > I'm not sure whether the problem is in liblockfile or lockfile-progs; > I'll leave that to the maintainer. > > Also, I think that the lock files should contain the PID of the parent > process and not "0". The attached patch fixes that (but doesn't solve > the problem).
I believe this may have been a problem in liblockfile and has since been fixed. Can you still reproduce it? Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org