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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 /NEWS
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.
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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