[333] in NetBSD-Development
Re: More stuff in the install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Sun Jan 1 17:16:49 1995
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 17:16:30 -0500
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: jtk@atria.com, ghudson@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199501012049.PAA03533@glacier.MIT.EDU> (message from Greg Hudson on Sun, 01 Jan 1995 15:49:03 -0500)
Another cleanup we could do would be to use real locking on the
password file rather than the crap the Athena software does. I've
been meaning to figure out what lock files vipw and friends use to
lock /etc/master.passwd.
Why not just use POSIX file locking? I know why Project Athena didn't
do that on their microVAXen and RT's, but I'd like to think that we
can avoid those problems now... (by porting NetBSD to anything we
rally care about. :-) :-) :-) Seems that in-file locking would even
allow us to be extra-safe with a program that removed all the entries
coresponding to either the local-users or non-local-users files...
chad
