[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#841143: Bug#841143: Suspected race in gpg1 to gpg2 conversion or agent startup

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:15, ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk said:

> to be creating lockfiles with link().  It is quite difficult to make a
> reliable locking scheme with link().  I would have recommended flock

You may want to read the top of gnupg/common/dotlock.c to see why we use
this scheme. It is the only _portable_ way of doing advisory locks
_across platforms_.  FWIW, GNOME uses the same code.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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