Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:47:27 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two seem-to-be bugs with 3.0-SNAP Message-ID: <199901101747.JAA86041@apollo.backplane.com>
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:> >`pw user add' and `pw user mod' hang at the point of executing >
:>/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -C /etc/master.passwd
:
:Fixed by
:
:davidn 1999/01/08 02:52:39 PST
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: Modified files:
: usr.sbin/pw pw.c
: Log:
: Remove bogus file locking in main().
:
: Revision Changes Path
: 1.11 +1 -13 src/usr.sbin/pw/pw.c
:
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:Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never
:Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer;
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.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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