From: pdh@netcom.com (P D H) Subject: Re: The great serial device naming controversy.... Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 04:36:53 GMT
ssd@engr.ucf.edu (Steven Dick) writes:
>The problem with doing this is that it gives two handles available to the
>same serial port--which in it self is not bad-- but often the lockfile names
>are based on the serial port name, and it is REALLY bad to have the possibility
>of two ways to get to a serial port with two different lock files!!
>
>It is best if you can give your serial ports just one name.
Are things really this bad where the names are used as is? The names
should be resolved to a canonical form before locking. This smells of
a broken lock system.
There are always going to be symlinks, and if a symlink can get around
a lock, something is certainly broken.
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