From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 24 22: 6:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E773B37B41B for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.org (socks1.yahoo.com [216.145.50.200]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 330BB8B5BB; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D17FA65.E4B3AC0D@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:06:45 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Paul Herman , "Geoffrey C. Speicher" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch] References: <20020623111412.V38509-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> <3D1662CC.FE6F6D49@mindspring.com> <20020624124039.GB59373@over-yonder.net> <3D178124.192785D1@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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(). -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message