On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 17:45 +0200, Guido Trentalancia wrote: > Hello Stephen. > > Usually, when a lock file is released, the corresponding file is > removed from the filesystem for keeping it clean and tidy. > > I might be wrong... But why not ? > > If nothing is handling the semanage store, then there shouldn't be a > reason for keeping it locked. The presence of a lock file, usually > means that the lock is active. libsemanage doesn't use the lock files that way; it just uses them as the object for flock() operations. So the presence of the lock file means nothing. Removing it just means it will have to be re-created on the next operation. Not fundamentally opposed, but someone would need to validate that it doesn't cause any issues. It's been that way forever. Maybe the original Tresys authors of this code have an opinion on it.
