Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:06:45 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>, "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@sea-incorporated.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch] Message-ID: <3D17FA65.E4B3AC0D@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020623111412.V38509-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> <3D1662CC.FE6F6D49@mindspring.com> <20020624124039.GB59373@over-yonder.net> <3D178124.192785D1@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> Whatever locking protocol you come up with needs to be partcipated
> in by everyone. Historically, passwd file manipulations have used
> link count locking.
Link count locking also has the virtue of working over nfs, as opposed
to flock().
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