[systemd-devel] [HEADSUP] /var/lock and /var/lock/lockdev

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Thu Mar 31 23:52:19 PDT 2011


On 04/01/2011 12:33 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> A few minutes ago there was a discussion on #systemd involving lots of
> folks (from various distros even), regarding the chaotic setup of
> /var/lock on most distros. As it turns out every distro set this up
> differently, and almost all of them insecurely in one way or another.
> 
> I'd like to see this cleaned up and standardized in a secure way among
> the distros, so here's what I propose for adoption:
> 
>     /var/lock should be root:root 0755 and the place for various system
>     service lock directories such as /var/lock/subsys or /var/lock/lvm.
Hi,
why not /run/lock ?

Zbyszek


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