Bug#569976: hrmm

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Hedges
Maybe this theory doesn't make sense, because wouldn't mod.lockInstance() block until it succeeds? And the fork happens after the lock in /usr/bin/hp-systray. Where is the code for lockInstance()? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#569976: hrmm

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Hedges
Why do three `python hp-systray` procs get started anyway. I guess each one tries a lock after the fork, instead of the parent locking before the fork, and probably someone expected that doesn't matter because they assumed the child processes would get around to locking the file after the parent m