[LAU] memlock lack

[Arnold Krille]

On Thursday 27 May 2010 22:35:07 Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Am 27.05.2010 20:19, schrieb Pablo Fernandez:
> > Ailo wrote:
> > 
> > "JACK will write the following during post-installation to
> > /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf
> 
> Is there a special reason to change from the known method to write to
> limits.conf to a all-new method to write to a file nobody seems to have
> heared of before?
> 
> Is there any relese-note or such, where these reasons are discussed?

The "special" reason is:

If several packages modify one file, its very hard to track the changes. You 
might want to purge packages with all their configuration later...
So its better if each package adds its own file to a directory and all these 
files get parsed.

The same is done in /etc/apache2, in /etc/modprobe.d, in /etc/cron.[hourly|
daily|weekly|monthly] and many more. Its not a new and unknown method at all.

Have fun,

Arnold
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