From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 2 14:10: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lab.simerson.net (lab.simerson.net [64.224.9.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FFB837B416 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 14:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 99625 invoked from network); 2 May 2002 21:10:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.7.250?) (63.96.154.209) by lab.simerson.net with SMTP; 2 May 2002 21:10:03 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 17:10:00 -0400 Subject: Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5 From: Matt Simerson To: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" , Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 I'm interested too. I've seen this problem (quite a few times) on a large system (1k-10k+) users. It only happens on systems being provisioned to via pw. Matt On 5/2/02 4:27 PM, "Geoffrey C. Speicher" wrote: > 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