1 files changed, 0 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/util.c b/src/basic/util.c
index 576c6238d6..2ee5de9cd0 100644
--- a/src/basic/util.c
+++ b/src/basic/util.c
@@ -2096,46 +2096,6 @@ int update_reboot_param_file(const char *param) {
         return 0;
 }
 
-int take_password_lock(const char *root) {
-
-        struct flock flock = {
-                .l_type = F_WRLCK,
-                .l_whence = SEEK_SET,
-                .l_start = 0,
-                .l_len = 0,
-        };
-
-        const char *path;
-        int fd, r;
-
-        /* This is roughly the same as lckpwdf(), but not as awful. We
-         * don't want to use alarm() and signals, hence we implement
-         * our own trivial version of this.
-         *
-         * Note that shadow-utils also takes per-database locks in
-         * addition to lckpwdf(). However, we don't given that they
-         * are redundant as they they invoke lckpwdf() first and keep
-         * it during everything they do. The per-database locks are
-         * awfully racy, and thus we just won't do them. */
-
-        if (root)
-                path = strjoina(root, "/etc/.pwd.lock");
-        else
-                path = "/etc/.pwd.lock";
-
-        fd = open(path, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY|O_NOFOLLOW, 0600);
-        if (fd < 0)
-                return -errno;
-
-        r = fcntl(fd, F_SETLKW, &flock);
-        if (r < 0) {
-                safe_close(fd);
-                return -errno;
-        }
-
-        return fd;
-}
-
 int is_symlink(const char *path) {
         struct stat info;