From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 30 9:20:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BA137B403; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA20355; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:19:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:19:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: "Peter C. Lai" , Jeroen Massar , "'Garance A Drosihn'" , "'Matt Dillon'" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, "'Garrett Wollman'" , brian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to utmp, wtmp & lastlog entries In-Reply-To: <200107261850.f6QIoaa04255@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > write to utmp/wtmp & utmpx/wtmpx need to be aware of any changes, hence > applications that once were portable are now not. It is my hope that > we avoid the Solaris 8 type of mess when overhauling utmp/wtmp. Except that the Krb5/Solaris 8 interaction is actually a Solaris 8 libc bug. It has nothing to do with Krb5 (except that Krb5 makes use of a public interface that just happens to have issues.) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message