Bug 96339 – mgetty and taylor-uucp have different locations for their lock files

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description James Rushworth 2005-06-16 22:54:26 UTC]

taylor-uucp lock file location: /var/lock/uucp
mgetty lock file location: /var/lock
both programs use uucp lock file format but don't work together because the
lock files are in different locations

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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After:

ebuild mgetty-1.1.30-r2.ebuild unpack

I edited:

/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30-r2/work/mgetty-1.1.30/policy.h

and changed this:

# ifdef linux
#  define LOCK  "/var/lock/LCK..%s"
# endif

to:

# ifdef linux
#  define LOCK  "/var/lock/uucp/LCK..%s"
# endif

after the rest of the ebuild mgetty and cu worked together.

[Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-07-03 03:07:02 UTC]

I didn't knew that uucp has its own lock directory.
If anything needs to be fixed, that would be taylor-uucp, not mgetty. Every
program that use serial lines (pppd, minicom, ...), locks them by placing a
LCK..$devfile in /var/lock, and this is the right place for them as far as I'm
concerned.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-01-06 06:25:50 UTC]

Re-assign, maintainer retired.

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2006-01-08 22:33:02 UTC]

taking over the maintainership

[Comment 4 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2006-01-09 14:37:33 UTC]

submitted taylor-uucp-1.07-r1 to the tree.
the new revision uses /var/lock as locking directory.