Re: a problem with visudo

[Samuel Thibault]

Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Tue 02 Mar 2010 11:50:44 +0100, a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:02:10PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote:
> > 
> > I tried to edit sudoers with visudo, but I always got an error:
> > visudo: /etc/sudoers busy, try again later
> > 
> > I am very sure that there isn't /etc/sudoers.tmp and I just installed it on 
> > my
> > system. Does anyone have the same problem? Is it a bug?
> 
> Same here.  It seems it has been reported before:
> https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=30628&aid=303084&atid=411594

I thought that bug was documented.  I have added

“IIRC the problem is that visudo uses record locking, which is not yet
supported on GNU/Hurd.”

Samuel