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9.4 ksu: locking problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Wed Jun 15 17:43:21 2005

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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:43:10 -0400
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Just a heads-up:

There seems to be a file locking problem in ksu, which can cause other
programs trying to access the user's credentials cache to hang until
ksu exits.

I'm investigating.

Ken

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