Bug#478040: liblockfile-simple-perl: "-warn" option doesn't work

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:39:02 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:

> (Ok, the upstream tag is just a guess.)

(Good idea.)
 
> LockFile::Simple->make(
>         -autoclean => 1,
>         -hold => 0,
>         -stale => 1,
>         -warn => 0)->lock('/var/lib/nihilist/db') || die "...";
> 
> so I can just forget about the lock and it will be removed for me when
> the program is done.  However, I get "WARNING: releasing 1 pending
> lock..." at program exit.  Setting -wfunc => undef instead of -warn
> solves the problem, but warn is documented to suppress warnings too.

Agreed, this behaviour is not really intuitive.
From a short look in the code the message comes from
LockFile::Manager which doesn't honour the 'warn' property.
 
I'll pass this issue on the the upstream author.

Cheers,
gregor
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