Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: lirc
This is related to bug 697999 and specifically my need to work around
that bug.
If, in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf, you set REMOTE_SOCKET to /dev/lircd1 and
transmitter_socket to /dev/lircd, then the lirc init script will create
a circular symlink loop between /dev/lircd and /dev/lircd1. The script
tests if OLD_SOCKET != REMOTE_SOCKET, but it should also make sure that
OLD_SOCKET != TRANSMITTER_SOCKET Additionally, before removing
${OLD_SOCKET}1 the script should do the same checks, which it currently
does none.
A patch for this solution is attached.
My preference would actually to be to use the new socket locations in
/var/run/lircd, however, then the the order I create those sockets is
irrelevant, as the magical symlinking always symlinks /dev/lircd to the
remote and /dev/lircd1 to the transmitter, which is backwards from how I
need it to be. I'm not actually sure what the best fix is here.
Perhaps it could just test if the socket is /var/run/lirc/lircd\d+ and
if it is, then just symlink to /dev/$(basename $REMOTE_SOCKET) If this
is an acceptable solution, I can probably write up a patch for this
behavior if necessary. However, there may be other cases the current
behavior is designed to correct for. If bug 697999 gets fixed, then
this problem will no longer affect me.
** Affects: lirc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/698007
Title:
lirc init script can create circular symlinks
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