On Feb 25, Greg Hudson wrote
> Side note for developers: when I redid the passwd file locking (the
> old locking discipline was broken; it fcntl-locked the master.passwd
> file which got removed, so different processes could be locking
> against different objects) I originally wanted to fcntl-lock a separte
> file (e.g. /etc/master.passwd.lock), but mycroft preferred this scheme
> because it would work over NFS.  Does anyone NFS-mount their /etc
> directory?

Never heard of diskless machines ?

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