Well, I’m going on this document, which I dodn’t think is the latest, but I can’t find any other.
This gives:
"Many programs follow a convention to create a lock file in /var/lock to indicate that they are using a particular device or file. This directory holds those lock files (for some devices) and hopefully other programs will notice the lock file and won’t attempt to use the device or file.
Lock files should be stored within the /var/lock directory structure. Lock files for devices and other resources shared by multiple applications, such as the serial device lock files that were originally found in either /usr/spool/locks or /usr/spool/uucp, must now be stored in /var/lock. The naming convention which must be used is LCK… followed by the base name of the device file. For example, to lock /dev/ttyS0 the file LCK…ttyS0 would be created. The format used for the contents of such lock files must be the HDB UUCP lock file format."
So it doesn’t mention /var/lock/subsys/
I’m trying to stick with whatever the standard is, so I’m not sure if the standard has changed, or SUSE 11.2 is doing something non-compliant.