(ctime). Any of these three (or two) values will prevent cleanup
if it is more recent than the current time minus the age
field.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that while the aging algorithm is run a 'shared' BSD file lock (see <citerefentry
+ project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>flock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>) is
+ taken on each directory the algorithm descends into (and each directory below that, and so on). If the
+ aging algorithm finds a lock is already taken on some directory, it (and everything below it) is
+ skipped. Applications may use this to temporarily exclude certain directory subtrees from the aging
+ algorithm: the applications can take a BSD file lock themselves, and as long as they keep it aging of
+ the directory and everything below it is disabled.</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>