Lennart Poettering
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This replaces the local implementation of a timeout file lock with our new generic one. Note that a comment in the old code claimed we couldn't use alarm()-like timeouts, but htat's not entirely true: we can if we use SIGKILL, and thus know for sure that the process will be dead in case the timer is hit before we actually enter the file lock syscall. But we also know it will be delivered if we hit after.
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