opnsense-beep: serialize access to /dev/speaker #8281
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Otherwise one of concurrent calls to `beep' might fail with error message "beep: open of /dev/speaker for writing: Device busy".
Locking is done in
opnsense-beep
and not inbeep
to preserve tune (avoid cacophony). ${BEEPDIR}/low is used as a lock-file as `low' beep is already a special file: it's default beep.This might sound like a trivial change, but it might affect system behavior, e.g. when `opnsense-beep' is used in some shell script with errexit enabled.