ebtables-tiny: Fix lockfile function and reduce wait on lock #275
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During investigation of an issue with
ebtables
we discovered that the locking mechanism inebtables-tiny
did not work as expected. These commits should fix this issue.These commits were part of the Freifunk Braunschweig parker -releases for about an year now. We did not discover any negative impact with these changes.