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Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Note the file in question is (and was) "/etc/nsswitch.conf".

This file was probably used because /var/tmp or the file to be edited
was on NFS-mounted partition, right?

> As far as I can tell from the code nsdispatch(3) is just using fopen()
> and (since it uses lex & yacc), fread().

Well, flex(3) uses isatty() without checking for a character special
device. So, gethostbyname() etc. will trigger a TIOCGETA for
/etc/nsswitch.conf. Try this for example:

#include <netdb.h>

int main(void)
{
  return gethostbyname("localhost") =3D=3D NULL;
}
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> As for reproducing the main subject issue, yes that still happens too:
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>   4446 vi       CALL  unlink(0xa61e0)
>   4446 vi       NAMI  "/var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.04446b"
>   4446 vi       RET   unlink 0
>   4446 vi       CALL  unlink(0xad440)
>   4446 vi       NAMI  "/var/tmp/vi.recover/recover.04446d"
>   4446 vi       RET   unlink -1 errno 13 Permission denied
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> as before the recover.* file can be removed after 'vi' has exited....

Well, vi uses locks for the recover files which might interfere in
some way NFS.

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Christian

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