From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:33:59 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: NEWS: Extend note on /run/lock to recommend locking devices directly
X-Git-Tag: v258-rc4~30
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a6128b68bf5573bda7499318629ecb2be666848;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

NEWS: Extend note on /run/lock to recommend locking devices directly
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4c283610812..ff55bbcaa3a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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,