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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.


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