svn commit: r231648 - head/usr.sbin/vipw
Ed Schouten
ed at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 14 09:29:38 UTC 2012
Author: ed
Date: Tue Feb 14 09:29:37 2012
New Revision: 231648
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/231648
Log:
Restore message in man page on VFS timestamp precision.
Requested by: bde, jhb
Modified:
head/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8
Modified: head/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 Tue Feb 14 09:19:30 2012 (r231647)
+++ head/usr.sbin/vipw/vipw.8 Tue Feb 14 09:29:37 2012 (r231648)
@@ -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.
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