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authorMartin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>2016-02-01 12:09:34 +0100
committerMartin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>2016-02-01 12:16:24 +0100
commit61f32bff6130a44d077886d38cff89ad161bf177 (patch)
tree9efa6a8646bef7c8644353c53f72237af14ec728
parentf3ade27e68e76e068a7d81ed52d6893318e1d1ec (diff)
tmpfiles: drop /run/lock/lockdev
Hardly any software uses that any more, and better locking mechanisms like flock() have been available for many years. Also drop the corresponding "lock" group from sysusers.d/basic.conf.in, as nothing else is using this.
-rw-r--r--NEWS13
-rw-r--r--sysusers.d/basic.conf.in1
-rw-r--r--tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf8
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 539093616e..ee12437868 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
systemd System and Service Manager
+CHANGES WITH 229:
+
+ * Creation of the legacy /run/lock/lockdev/ directory was
+ dropped from tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf. Hardly any software uses
+ that any more, and better locking mechanisms like flock() have
+ been available for many years. If you still need this, you need to
+ create your own tmpfiles.d config file with:
+ d /run/lock/lockdev 0775 root lock -
+
+ Contributions from: ...
+
+ -- Berlin, 2016-MM-DD
+
CHANGES WITH 228:
* A number of properties previously only settable in unit
diff --git a/sysusers.d/basic.conf.in b/sysusers.d/basic.conf.in
index 823d6cb200..b2dc5ebd4f 100644
--- a/sysusers.d/basic.conf.in
+++ b/sysusers.d/basic.conf.in
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ g wheel - - -
# Access to certain kernel and userspace facilities
g kmem - - -
-g lock - - -
g tty @TTY_GID@ - -
g utmp - - -
diff --git a/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf b/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf
index 3cb0c63815..62e2ae0986 100644
--- a/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf
+++ b/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf
@@ -18,14 +18,6 @@ L /var/lock - - - - ../run/lock
d /run/lock/subsys 0755 root root -
-# /run/lock/lockdev is used to serialize access to tty devices via
-# LCK..xxx style lock files, For more information see:
-# http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-March/001823.html
-# On modern systems a BSD file lock is a better choice if
-# serialization is needed on those devices.
-
-d /run/lock/lockdev 0775 root lock -
-
# /forcefsck, /fastboot and /forcequotacheck are deprecated in favor of the
# kernel command line options 'fsck.mode=force', 'fsck.mode=skip' and
# 'quotacheck.mode=force'