On Monday 2015-01-19 14:06, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > >I think the best solution is to use to flock() as others do but then >we need a writable filesystem() which is what Phil was trying to skip. If semaphores are no longer on the table, using shm_open for an flockable fd seems like an option. The /dev/shm directory implicitly used for that should be there in a normal system, so as to support POSIX shm/sem in the first place. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html