Re: [PATCH 03/16] flock: improve timeout handling

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On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:46:11AM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> Moving to monotonic sounds good to me. Notice that there is linking change 
> in configure.ac making monotonic.c to be linked with -lrt even when 
> clock_gettime() would not require it. The timer_create() requires -lrt at 
> last for now.
> 
> https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/50425160a825986abb4e9c22ef8acee8e7b34834

OK.

> s/CLOCKGETTIME_LIBS/UL_REALTIME_LIBS/
> 
> Better?

 Yeah.

> Correct. After the change flock(1) cannot be forced to timeout by sending 
> an ALRM signal. Is that good, bad, or possible regression is debatable. I 
> think allowing external signals to cause timeout is unintented behavior. 

 I think it's better to split signals and timers.

> Function pointer is added.
> 
> https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/50425160a825986abb4e9c22ef8acee8e7b34834

 You forgot to update commit message ("This code is moved ...").

 Anyway, looks good.

    Karel

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