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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
