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| author |   mpech <mpech@openbsd.org> | 2002-05-01 08:03:29 +0000 |
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| committer | mpech <mpech@openbsd.org> | 2002-05-01 08:03:29 +0000 |
| commit | ee997aea819580341aee10df113db886cac4a60f (patch) | |
| tree | bc9dda5eb363d6052f48626ddd3c19b14321f792 /lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 | |
| parent | Change WI_PORTTYPE_IBSS to 4. This change got lost in the big ibss (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-ee997aea819580341aee10df113db886cac4a60f.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-ee997aea819580341aee10df113db886cac4a60f.zip | |
o) start new sentence on a new line;
o) always close .Bl tags;
o) fix usage of .Xr;
millert@ ok
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libutil/pw_lock.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 b/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 index 78d42acba54..d109dc79c64 100644 --- a/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 +++ b/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pw_lock.3,v 1.8 2001/08/26 03:28:30 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pw_lock.3,v 1.9 2002/05/01 08:03:30 mpech Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1995 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -65,13 +65,15 @@ function attempts to lock the passwd database by creating the file .Pa /etc/ptmp with an exclusive lock (using .Xr flock 2 -semantics) and returns the file descriptor of that file. If +semantics) and returns the file descriptor of that file. +If .Fa retries is greater than zero, .Fn pw_lock will try multiple times to open .Pa /etc/ptmp , -waiting one second between tries. In addition to being a lock file, +waiting one second between tries. +In addition to being a lock file, .Pa /etc/ptmp will also hold the contents of the new passwd file. .Pp |