Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 23:48:28 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86 Makefile ports/x11/XFree86/patches patch-ac Message-ID: <Mutt.19961226234828.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199612261603.RAA11237@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Dec 26, 1996 17:03:21 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19961225111157.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> <199612261603.RAA11237@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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According to J Wunsch: > Note that this is basically unrelated to the libc interface, but > rather happens since there is _no_ official library interface for the > utmp/wtmp handling, at least nothing xterm and xdm know about. I agree. > Perhaps we should rip out all the utmp/wtmp handling code out of xterm > and xdm while we are at it, and offer the XFree86 people a patch. > Moving it to libutil would solve the matter once and for all, so > changing utmp.h next time will only require a minor version number > bump for the shared libutil. I always thought one of the purposes of login(3), logwtmp(3) and logout(3) in libutil was precisely that. I'm surprised xterm/xdm don't use them. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #33: Sat Dec 21 12:57:17 CET 1996
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