[lockdev-devel] patches?

[Ludwig Nussel]

Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
> >   - We do need to cater for block device locking, which the new code
> >     does do.  Could we use 'b' rather than 'x' for the prefix though,
> >     and fall back on 'x' if it's neither block nor character as a
> >     safety measure?  This just makes the naming more descriptive.
> 
> Sure.

Correction. SVr4 lock file only make sense with devices as the file
name includes major and minor numbers. So for regular files all SVr4
lock files would have the same name. I'll send a patch that doesn't
create a SVr4 lock if the file is not a device.

cu
Ludwig

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