Hi, I just installed picocom and ran into a small problem (which I have encountered before on other distributions [0]) to do with lock files in /run/lock.
The issue is that picocom is creating its lock files directly in /run/lock, which is only root writeable. Requiring root to run picocom is not really ideal. According to [0] device locks should be in /run/lock/lockdev. This directory would be group writeable, and be owned by group "lock". I would then recompile picocom to use /run/lock/lockdev instead and make sure I belong to the "lock" group. So it seems NixOS is doing the right thing with the permissions, I'm just wondering what the deal is with creating extra directories in the /run/lock directory which can be used by non-root programs, or whether locks should be placed somewhere else in NixOS. Regards, Luke [0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-March/001823.html
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