Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> wrote: |I dunno about allowing lockf on /dev/null. Any process can open /dev/null, |it isn't unique to whatever you are testing and there could easily be |unintended consequences. Linux does support it but I dunno how good an |idea that is.
I'm surely not going and try to convince you. (In my case i will finally have an in-code mailbox that can act similar to /dev/null.) But it's not that the DragonFly behaviour revealed a bug. --steffen
