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Mention the possibility of non-interactive scripts for EDITOR and add a

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BUGS section mentioning the requirement that such scripts run "sleep 1"
or equivalent to work reliably.
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@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ The editor specified by the string
.Ev EDITOR
will be invoked instead of the default editor
.Xr vi 1 .
This can be used to allow a script to non-interactively modify the
password file.
.It Ev PW_SCAN_BIG_IDS
See
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 .
@ -108,3 +110,10 @@ The
.Nm
utility appeared in
.Bx 4.0 .
.Sh BUGS
The mechanism for checking for password file modifications requires that
.Ev EDITOR
run for at least one second.
Non-interactive editor scripts should invoke
.Xr sleep 1
or equivalent to insure this happens.