Hi Björn, On Fri Jan 29, 2021 at 09:35:45 +0000, Björn Wiberg wrote: > Hello Adam! > > Thank you for your reply! > > On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:44:23 +0100 Adam Lackorzynski > <a...@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>wrote: > > I improved the handling in minicom upstream to consider this case. > > Thanks a lot! > > > Still, minicom creates the lockfile such that it is readable by > > everyone. In your case, has the lockfile been created by minicom or > > someone else? > > The lockfile was created by another software (socat). > > It (socat) appears to have problems both with the format (reported separately > in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979445), and, as noted, > with the permissions (reported separately in > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979506).
Ah, this explains it then. Thanks for letting us know! Adam