From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 2 13:28:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sea-incorporated.com (caribbean.sea-incorporated.com [209.74.10.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8384C37BB12 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (geoff@localhost) by sea-incorporated.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13474; Thu, 2 May 2002 16:27:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff@sea-incorporated.com) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 16:27:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: fullermd@over-yonder.net Subject: Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: [in regard to multiple concurrent pw(8) processes hosing master.passwd] > The reason for this is that the only file pw(8) locks is > /etc/master.passwd.new when it copies into it. [snip] > If anybody's interested, I could take a stab at hacking something > together for this sometime over the next week or so. I'm interested. How did the stab go? I'm browsing archives and I can't find any more followups. Geoff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message