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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:39:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        "Carlos C. Tapang" <ctapang@easystreet.com>
Cc:        "Jos Backus" <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Two seem-to-be bugs with 3.0-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199901110839.AAA90904@apollo.backplane.com>

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:>    Ah, I missed that one.  pwd_mkdb was earlier modified to do locking
:>    (which it didn't do before).  So now that it does, programs that
:>    use it shoulds either use pwd_mkdb's -N option so they can hold their
:>    own lock all the way through, or not hold a lock.
:
:Won't this require a change in sysinstall also?
:
:Carlos C. Tapang
:http://www.genericwindows.com

    I don't think so.  sysinstall does not appear to lock the password file
    on its own.

						-Matt

    Matthew Dillon  Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet 
                    Communications & God knows what else.
    <dillon@backplane.com> (Please include original email in any response)    

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