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-rw-r--r--lib/libutil/pw_lock.38
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 b/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3
index d132fa4fac4..fca11013cee 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3
+++ b/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pw_lock.3,v 1.11 2005/03/07 23:01:40 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pw_lock.3,v 1.12 2005/07/29 09:08:34 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -58,10 +58,8 @@ functions allow a program to update the system passwd database.
The
.Fn pw_lock
function attempts to lock the passwd database by creating the file
-.Pa /etc/ptmp
-with an exclusive lock (using
-.Xr flock 2
-semantics) and returns the file descriptor of that file.
+.Pa /etc/ptmp ,
+and returns the file descriptor of that file.
If
.Fa retries
is greater than zero,