"Geoffrey C. Speicher" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Don Bowman wrote:
>
> > Sometimes after this script been run I end up with only the
> > last few lines of the groups file.
> >
> > Is 'pw' not atomic somehow? The lines that are there seem
> > complete, i'm just missing the first 100 lines or so. Its
> > not always the same amount missing.
>
> This is discussed in bin/38676 in gnats, but there has been no followup
> since June. This problem bit me more than once by corrupting
> master.passwd, so I'm running a locally patched version until some kind of
> fix hits -stable.
If your patch fixes the problem, have you replied to the PR with it?
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