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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:55:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 16 char usernames merge?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326165407.9674D-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970326023311.24748A-100000@ns2.harborcom.net>

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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Bradley Dunn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am just wondering...Are there are any plans to merge the 16 character
> username changes into the RELENG_2_2 branch? I know the original commit
> message said:
> "This is not for 2.2!  This needs to get shaken out longer term in 3.0."
> but, hey, that was almost four months ago. :)
> 
> Just curious...Thanks!
> 
> pbd
> 
> --
> "...Thought that I was warm like a mother, lover, brother
> Brother, she was wrong
> Me, I don't long to belong"
> Tears for Fears -- "Cold"
> 
> 

  It is easy change, but so many ports depend on utmp.h, so they would
need to be re-built.  I don't think 2.1 will EVER get this change.

  I've doing this change to my own tree for some time, but I don't use
many of the ports.

Tom





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