Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:00:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@sea-incorporated.com> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matt Simerson <freebsd@blockads.com> Subject: Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch] Message-ID: <20020623085312.U38255-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> In-Reply-To: <20020623083510.K29729-100000@sea-incorporated.com>
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: > > 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. > > As Matt Fuller already pointed out in a follow-up, that brings us back to > where we were when we started, and it doesn't work for this application, > since master.passwd disappears and reappears before we're done. How so? I'm not suggesting unlink(2)ing /etc/master.passwd or /etc/spwd.db at all. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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