Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:39:25 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: ayan@kiwi.datasys.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utmp & last Message-ID: <199907122239.PAA35065@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199907100928.FAA79011@kiwi.datasys.net>
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In article <199907100928.FAA79011@kiwi.datasys.net>,
Ayan George <ayan@kiwi.datasys.net> wrote:
>
> What seems strange is that they use the different data types to
> store the same information (the time):
>
> struct lastlog {
> time_t ll_time;
> char ll_line[UT_LINESIZE];
> char ll_host[UT_HOSTSIZE];
> };
>
> struct utmp {
> char ut_line[UT_LINESIZE];
> char ut_name[UT_NAMESIZE];
> char ut_host[UT_HOSTSIZE];
> long ut_time;
> };
>
> Not that there is any _real_ difference between long and time_t,
On the Alpha, a long is 64 bits but a time_t is 32 bits.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron
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