On 1/14/2018 6:47 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 17:06 +0100, Matt Darfeuille wrote:
>>
>> The code is only working and tested on OpenWRT.
> 
> Which is my platform.
> 
>> Lock on OpenWRT has limited functionalities.
> 
> Such as what?  And why would it being limited (only) on OpenWRT mean
> you that make it's use exclusive to OpenWRT.
> 
> Does any of the limited functionalities shed any light on how a lock
> can be running without the file it's trying to lock being present?

Ok -- You seem to be fixated on not restricting the use of the lock utility.

> To be clear, the file is still there, it's just that it's directory entry
> has been removed.  So something removed it without unlocking it?
> 

As I don't see this conversation going anywhere I'll just say the following:

1)  I don't get that behavier on OpenWRT 15.05.1 with shorewall-lite
5.1.10.2.
Note that Shorewall is patched:
1a68d87c9
c518cfaa4
09980cc75
e0a757ea0
550003f0f

2) Using /etc for temporary files.

-Matt
-- 
Matt Darfeuille

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