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
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