On Fri, 04.09.09 21:27, Florian Zumbiehl (florz@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > plus, it seems to be the simpler solution by far - which is why I went > with flock() in my suggested fix you find below. Untested, as usual, and > I don't really have a clue whether there are any unhealthy interactions > with the rest of udev in this solution. Also, you most likely will want > to change the path of the lock file ;-) Never use flock. All Unix locking APIs are broken in one way or the other. But if you use one then at least use fcntl(F_SETLK) which is the least broken. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
