svn commit: r231383 - in head: lib/libutil usr.sbin/vipw

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Mon Feb 13 18:43:45 UTC 2012


* John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>, 20120213 17:26:
> Eh, the BUG is still worth mentioning.  By default FreeBSD only uses
> second granularity for VFS timestamps, so two updates within a single
> second is still racey.  You can keep the code change, but I would
> revert the manual page change to put the BUG back as your change
> didn't remove it.

I'll re-add it tomorrow. I do think I will extend the message a bit,
stating that this is only a problem if your file system doesn't do
fine-grained timestamps.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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