Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:09:35 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Stefan Schwarzer <sschwarzer@sschwarzer.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwd(5) line order causes blocking of top(1) - why? Message-ID: <20020731200935.GB21257@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3D482E46.5000904@sschwarzer.net> References: <3D482E46.5000904@sschwarzer.net>
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:36:54PM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
> Hello
>
> About a week ago I had a problem with a top(1) that blocked. I found a
> workaround
> after discovering that the blocking occured when a NIS netgroup entry in
> passwd(5)
> was placed before any of its users' entries (for a more thourough
> description of
> the backgound see the second link given below).
>
> Ok, I found a workaround, but can anyone explain this behaviour? Is it a bug
> in FreeBSD?
I'd say yes; and you should file a PR with send-pr to flag the
maintainers to have a look at it.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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