Terry Lambert wrote: > Whatever locking protocol you come up with needs to be partcipated > in by everyone. Historically, passwd file manipulations have used > link count locking.
Link count locking also has the virtue of working over nfs, as opposed to flock(). -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message