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Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Mon Aug 18 19:26:51 PDT 2003
Urk! Where's ut_host[] in utmpx? I don't see it in the specification...
Sigh. So much for the single unix specification!
Maybe I should just adopt the fields in the utmpx.h from Linux. It
seems to have everything we need.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:
: I'm going to qualify my statement regarding utmpx. I've gone through
: the single unix specification and I actually think it is a reasonable
: replacement for utmp. It doesn't solve any of the problems, mind you,
: but it does add additional ut_* fields that we really ought to have.
:
: So, in that respect, I think it is reasonable for us to remove utmp.h
: and replace it with utmpx.h.
:
: Again, it doesn't solve any of the problems so I would hesitate to do more
: then just implement the basic API, but it doesn't make the problems any
: worse then we already have with utmp.h.
:
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