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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: change c-kermit lockfile?
Date: 6 Sep 1995 12:45:30 GMT
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In article <DEGtrJ.45p@gorilla.nbn.com>,
Tim Holmes <holmes@gorilla.nbn.com> wrote:
: Is it possible to change the format & location of the c-kermit lockfile?
:
Of course. You've got the source code, change it to whatever you like,
at your own risk. As you will note, there are already two (2) different
and incompatible lock file conventions for Linux, and dozens of them for
other UNIX variations and releases thereof. Read the UNIX appendix of
"Using C-Kermit" and/or the file ckuins.doc for details.
: I am running linux and want the lock to be ascii, not binary, and other
: than in /usr/spool/uucp. Right now I have altered all the other serial
: port apps to use binary locks and have put a symbolic link to /var/lock,
: where I want the locks to be.
:
The purpose of the lock file is to be where all applications can find it,
so all of these applications will interoperate. Changing it is probably
a bad idea. Eventually you will install another application, and another,
and you'll have to go through this over and over again.
: Can I change it so that the locks are ascii and in /var/lock?
:
You can change it any way you like if that's what you really want.
Read the aforementioned references.
In fact, maybe all you need to do is build Linux C-Kermit for the "other"
lockfile standard, known as FSSTND:
make linux KFLAGS=-DLINUXFSSTND
This selects /var/lock as the lockfile directory and write the pid in ascii.
- Frank