The lock-file configuration (both from configuration file and -X argument to named) has better alternatives nowadays. Modern process supervisor should be used to ensure that a single named process is running on a given configuration. Alternatively, it's possible to wrap the named with flock(1).
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Tests of runtime checks, e.g., that named prevents duplicate processes
from running.