[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] useradd.bbclass: use locking of bb.utils to avoid lock race issue of useradd/groupadd

[Huang, Jie (Jackie)]

>On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 14:53 +0800, jackie.huang at windriver.com wrote:
>> From: Jackie Huang <jackie.huang at windriver.com>
>>
>> A race condition can occur when adding users and groups to the
>>passwd and group files, in [YOCTO #1794], 10 times retry added
>> but it is not fixed completely.
>>
>> This fix re-writes the useradd_preinst and useradd_sysroot with
>> python and use locking of bb.utils to lock the passwd and group
>> files before executing useradd/groupadd commands to avoid the
>> lock race themselves.
>>
>> [YOCTO #2779]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jackie Huang <jackie.huang at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/classes/useradd.bbclass |  284 ++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>>  1 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
>
>Please resend this with the whitespace issues resolved. Its near
>impossible to review as it stands :(

Re-sent, sorry about that.

Thanks,
Jackie

>
>Cheers,
>
>Richard


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