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| author | Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-02-14 09:29:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-02-14 09:29:37 +0000 |
| commit | 6bbd04d0e4de3f8b7633985631eb381018beea3c (patch) | |
| tree | 13358879412de9cbda1cdc0a60f32b61aa86f7d4 /usr.sbin/vipw | |
| parent | 5525b53de5d250ef8ecaebea404c1085d35fe7cf (diff) | |
| download | src-6bbd04d0e4de3f8b7633985631eb381018beea3c.tar.gz src-6bbd04d0e4de3f8b7633985631eb381018beea3c.zip | |
Restore message in man page on VFS timestamp precision.
Requested by: bde, jhb
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=231648
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/vipw')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 b/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 index 5e8be4bc64bc..69f884539646 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)vipw.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd February 10, 2012 +.Dd February 14, 2012 .Dt VIPW 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -110,3 +110,13 @@ The .Nm utility appeared in .Bx 4.0 . +.Sh BUGS +The mechanism for checking for password file modifications requires that +the modification time of the password file changes. +This means that in a default configuration where file system timestamps +are not calculated with sub-second precision, +.Ev EDITOR +has to run for at least one second. +Non-interactive editor scripts should invoke +.Xr sleep 1 +or equivalent to ensure this happens. |