MAAS

  1. Bug #1067336
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1067336

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 1067336] Re: maas startup can leave lock file

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On 10/16/2012 5:40 PM, Gavin Panella wrote:
> The presence of the file doesn't matter so much because the lock
> is taken with lockf/flock. The file ought to not be there after a
> reboot though:
>
> $ mount | fgrep /run/lock none on /run/lock type tmpfs
> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
>
 It is taken with a FileLock which creates a different file and
hardlinks it to the lock location.

It isn't open O_EXCL. That is a different way to do it, but not how
the startup.lock file is taken.

John
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