Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:25:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r202219 - in head: . sys/sys Message-ID: <201001131925.o0DJP3L1000156@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: ed Date: Wed Jan 13 19:25:03 2010 New Revision: 202219 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/202219 Log: Complete the migration towards utmpx. - Add a notice to UPDATING, explaining users may need to recompile applications that use the old database. - Bump __FreeBSD_version. Modified: head/UPDATING head/sys/sys/param.h Modified: head/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- head/UPDATING Wed Jan 13 19:07:48 2010 (r202218) +++ head/UPDATING Wed Jan 13 19:25:03 2010 (r202219) @@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9. machines to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.) +20100113: + The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx, + the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX. + Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match, + making it practically impossible to support both interfaces. + The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1), + last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8). + + All applications in the base system use utmpx. This means only + local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these + utmp database files. These applications must be rebuilt to make + use of utmpx. + + After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old + log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*), + assuming their contents is of no importance anymore. + 20100108: Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the Modified: head/sys/sys/param.h ============================================================================== --- head/sys/sys/param.h Wed Jan 13 19:07:48 2010 (r202218) +++ head/sys/sys/param.h Wed Jan 13 19:25:03 2010 (r202219) @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ * in the range 5 to 9. */ #undef __FreeBSD_version -#define __FreeBSD_version 900006 /* Master, propagated to newvers */ +#define __FreeBSD_version 900007 /* Master, propagated to newvers */ #ifndef LOCORE #include <sys/types.h>
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