Add support for ignoring locking failures. This is only enabled when

you've specified a directory.  It is intended to be used in building
custom releases over NFS where locking may be unreliable at best and
there is no contention that the locking is designed to arbitrate.
Other uses of this flag are discouraged.  Document same in usage and
man page (including the warning about unwise).

Sponsored by: Timing Solutions

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 b/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8
index 9d47412..a29ab4e 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 .Op Fl C
 .Op Fl N
 .Op Fl p
+.Op Fl i
 .Op Fl d Ar directory
 .Op Fl s Ar cachesize
 .Op Fl u Ar username
@@ -82,6 +83,16 @@ the rebuilding of the database.
 .It Fl p
 Create a Version 7 style password file and install it into
 .Pa /etc/passwd .
+.It Fl i
+Ignore locking failure of the
+.Pa master.passwd
+file.
+This option is intended to be used to build password files in
+the release process over NFS where no contention can happen.
+A non-default directory must also be specified with the
+.Fl d
+option for locking to be ignored.
+Other use of this option is strongly discouraged.
 .It Fl d Ar directory
 Store databases into specified destination directory instead of
 .Pa /etc .