Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:46:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Cc: terry@lambert.org, stesin@gu.net, karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: truss, trace ?? Message-ID: <199701141646.JAA29888@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701140114.BAA11572@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from "Brian Somers" at Jan 14, 97 01:14:49 am
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> > Cyclic file types imply record orientation. > [.....] > > Unless of course you don't mind having a truncated line at the start > of your log ;) > > This (IMHO) would be more "natural", 'cos there shouldn't be any > "record" knowledge at that level. "Natural" for text files, maybe. For the wtmp file, it's not so natural... it's wierd, even, since you can't resync to a valid record boundry without sync data built into the data format. For text files, the sync data can be "after the first \n", since it is a variable length record format with "\n" record seperators, but how do you resync wtmp? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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