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| Kaz Kylheku... |
 Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:46 am |
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Does anyone know about any software which actually creates a lock file
called /etc/mtab~~ (with two tildes rather than one?)
The Red Hat initscripts remove this during cleanup, thanks to a change
added by Bill Nottingham in 2000:
rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/mtab~~
It seems popular to do this in other distributions with different init scripts.
But the util-linux mount program does not generate such a name, as far
as I can tell.
A source file in nfs-utils makes a reference to mtab~~ as a possible target for
a lock file. This is only in a comment which argues against the choice; the
code uses a PID-based file.
Is this some onion in the varnish? |
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