Upstream qmail 1.03

[qmail] / qmail-getpw.9

diff --git a/qmail-getpw.9 b/qmail-getpw.9
index 86befb24281f875c909f474a9e14c814fdb8d917..0f12e1c12c2c0faddb11463b45f7c4bcc246ba95 100644 (file)
--- a/qmail-getpw.9
+++ b/qmail-getpw.9
@@ -42,7 +42,12 @@ The operating system's
 .B getpwnam
 function, which is at the heart of
 .BR qmail-getpw ,
 .B getpwnam
 function, which is at the heart of
 .BR qmail-getpw ,

-is inherently unreliable.
+is inherently unreliable:
+it fails to distinguish between temporary errors and nonexistent users.
+Future versions of
+.B getpwnam
+should return ETXTBSY to indicate temporary errors
+and ESRCH to indicate nonexistent users.

 .SH "RULES"
 .B qmail-getpw
 considers an account in
 .SH "RULES"
 .B qmail-getpw
 considers an account in