Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCHv3] alpm_handle: store lock file descriptor

On 29/10/13 15:53, Allan McRae wrote:

On 27/10/13 01:32, Andrew Gregory wrote:

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There was a brief window between opening the file descriptor and creating a stream to it. If the process was interrupted during that window the lock file would not be removed correctly.

The pid is no longer printed to the lock file as this was virtually meaningless for lock files on NFS.

Fixes FS#35603

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory ---

Can someone else also look at commit acd92694 and ensure we are not regressing here. I think this is fine...

Updating the test case that was posted with commit acd92694 [1] shows this is not regressing. [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-February/012552.html Pulled to my working branch. A