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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:03:10 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: suspend bug
Message-ID:  <20020722235943.M25325-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020721210949.A37074@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Tim Robbins wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:30:14PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Er, there is no kernel bug here AFAIK.  I don't really understand rev.1.54
> > of su.c.  Is it related to the PAM brokenness that is worked around in
> > rev.1.53?
>
> Suspending chpass and vipw does not work correctly (like it does in 4.6.1),
> either:
>
> $ chpass
> #Changing user information for tim.
> *snip*
> *^Z*
> [1] + Stopped              chpass
> $ fg
> chpass
> [1] + Stopped              chpass
> $ fg
> chpass
> #Changing user information for tim.
>
> I don't know if this is KSE-related or was introduced in the recent
> modifications to src/lib/libutil/pw_util.c. crontab -e behaves correctly
> when suspended.

Looks like it is a kernel bug then.  chpass and vipw work correctly here
with a pre-KSEIII kernel but not with a post-* one.  There seems to be
more than 1 kernel bug, since you said in another reply that David Xu's
patch fixes su but not chpass or vipw.

Bruce


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