"Pawel Wiecek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Oct 2, 5:40pm, Roger Leigh wrote: >> 2) When creating the lock name, it replaces any '/'s with '.'s. Thus > > This is roughly my idea, though I was thuinking about using underscores or > colons. Does your suggestion for using periods come from the way "numeric" > lock names are created or is there another reason?
It came from the "numeric" names. There's no particular reason--I'd be happy with any other separator, though I thing ':' is better than '_', since it's less likely to be used in an actual device name. > Anyway I still need to check what FHS et al suggest and what other > implementations do... I've posted to the FHS list; I'm just waiting for a reply. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8363785&forum_id=3128 > BTW -- you'd probably could maintain this package better than I do. Maybe > you'd like to co-maintain or adopt it? I really just wanted to use it in my schroot package ;-) [I want to lock LVM LVs during snapshot creation]. I would be happy to co-maintain it, if you would find that helpful. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
