From 23beafab6383e6ae6df551ea68d58eb4635c5506 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ghudson <ghudson@NetBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:26:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document that the caller must do a pw_abort() if pw_mkdb()
 fails.

---
 lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3 b/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3
index f768f6970c97..b5791af817cf 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3
+++ b/lib/libutil/pw_lock.3
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ You should finish writing to and close the file descriptor returned by
 .Fn pw_lock
 before calling
 .Fn pw_mkdb .
+If
+.Fn pw_mkdb
+fails and you do not wish to retry, you should make sure to call
+.Fn pw_abort
+to clean up the lock file.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn pw_abort