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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 16:27:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@sea-incorporated.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        fullermd@over-yonder.net
Subject:   Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205021621350.12421-100000@sea-incorporated.com>

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On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

[in regard to multiple concurrent pw(8) processes hosing master.passwd]

> The reason for this is that the only file pw(8) locks is
> /etc/master.passwd.new when it copies into it.

[snip]

> If anybody's interested, I could take a stab at hacking something
> together for this sometime over the next week or so.

I'm interested.  How did the stab go?  I'm browsing archives and I can't
find any more followups.

Geoff


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