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Subject: Re: /var/lock permissions
From: Olaf Kirch (okircaldera.de)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 07:59:10 CDT

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:32:10AM -0700, Jim Dennis wrote:
> Certainly the process of checking for and obtaining a lockfile
> (including checking for process status and stale lock removal)
> should be abstracted and consolidated into a single program.

I have a setgid uucp helper that does roughly this, and a bit more.
It checks whether the user is allowed to use that modem, then
locks it, then opens it, then passes the fd back to the invoking
program via a unix socketpair.

The problem is that many apps require a heavy overhaul in order to
work with such an approach.

FWIW, I think that having different helpers for different tasks
is not really useful. Dialout, fax, etc should be treated as
equivalent.

Olaf 

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