What you're probably seeing is that the routines to write wtmp/utmp
are calling flock() to lock these files while updating them. So as
far as the kernel goes there's nothing to fix. You'll probably be able
to spot the extraneous flock()->fcntl() call by strace'ing agetty.
-Andy
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