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From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
Subject: Re: bin/38676: change request for pw command
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The following reply was made to PR bin/38676; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Takumi ISHII <takishii@xephion.ne.jp>,
	"Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@sea-incorporated.com>
Subject: Re: bin/38676: change request for pw command
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:07:14 -0700 (PDT)

 On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
 
 > > +	for (;;) {
 > > +		[ stuff(); ]
 > > +		close(infd);
 > > +	}
 >
 > Might I suggest a sleep(1); in there?  Give the poor CPU a break!   :->
 
 :-)
 
 That's what I first thought, but open() will block until the lock
 frees up.  If the link count isn't 1, I don't think it should
 sleep, but it just as well could usleep() I suppose, but I don't
 think it's a big deal.
 
 This idea was taken from Matt Dillon's pwd_mkdb.c rev 1.29 fix.
 
 -Paul.
 

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