NEWS: Extend note on /run/lock to recommend locking devices directly

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Josh Triplett
2025-08-30 09:56:41 +01:00
committed by Luca Boccassi
parent dd28a11d57
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@@ -166,7 +166,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 258 in spe:
directory is encouraged to ship their own tmpfiles.d configuration to
set it up according to their needs. In general, services should store
their lock files in RuntimeDirectory=/$RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, and software
directly executed by users should use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
directly executed by users should use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Software
working with specific devices (e.g. serial port devices) should flock
the device directly rather than creating a separate lock file.
* Support for systemd-repart's FactoryReset EFI variable has been
deprecated and support for it will be removed in v260. Use the newer,