Re: attibutes of lockfile created by setlock

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:45:45 -0400

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Otavio Exel <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem is that 2+ different users will be sharing this lockfile and
> setlock creates it with attributes (-rw------- user user) that prevents
> other users from locking it even after the first user has unlocked;

The first thing you do after locking the file could be changing the
permissions to make the file accessible by other users.

> I'm running debian and I'd like to place the lockfile in /var/lock so
> creating the file beforehand will not work...

Why not?


paul