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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:09:35 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Stefan Schwarzer <sschwarzer@sschwarzer.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: passwd(5) line order causes blocking of top(1) - why?
Message-ID:  <20020731200935.GB21257@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3D482E46.5000904@sschwarzer.net>
References:  <3D482E46.5000904@sschwarzer.net>

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:36:54PM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
> Hello
> 
> About a week ago I had a problem with a top(1) that blocked. I found a 
> workaround
> after discovering that the blocking occured when a NIS netgroup entry in 
> passwd(5)
> was placed before any of its users' entries (for a more thourough 
> description of
> the backgound see the second link given below).
> 
> Ok, I found a workaround, but can anyone explain this behaviour? Is it a bug
> in FreeBSD?

I'd say yes; and you should file a PR with send-pr to flag the
maintainers to have a look at it.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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