Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:06:29 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> Cc: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@sea-incorporated.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Simerson <freebsd@blockads.com> Subject: Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch] Message-ID: <20020623080629.GB40762@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20020623000216.E37393-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> References: <20020622180011.V80651-100000@sea-incorporated.com> <20020623000216.E37393-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net>
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:47:30AM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: > > Keep it simple. Do what you mean. If you want to make changes to > /etc/master.passwd then open(2) /etc/master.passwd with O_EXLOCK. The point being (backing up to the start of the discussion a few months ago) that that doesn't work when master.passwd changes as part of the process. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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