Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:07:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include utmp.h Message-ID: <199612071307.OAA18895@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612041130.DAA25553@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 4, 96 03:30:18 am"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Modified: include utmp.h > Log: > Bump maximum username length to 16 characters. This brings us into > line with BSD/OS and Linux's username limits, making transitioning from > either operating system a lot easier than it is now. I'm currently > running with this change on my system, as are several others, and have > experienced no ill effects. We should provide a small tool that allows to convert the wtmp file into the new format. This should IMHO be part of the 3.0 upgrade procedure. Note that old wtmp files are being gzipped by default, so the tool should handle this case. Breaking backward compatibility to ourselves is IMHO a Bad Thing. I volunteer to write that tool (i think it's not a big deal anyway), but where should it go to? Alternatively, we could teach last(1) to handle both cases, based on some heuristics. (Haven't tried, but i assume that's also possible.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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