From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 26 15:01:50 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA15089 for current-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA15074 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:01:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA02597 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 00:01:36 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id AAA13160 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 00:01:22 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.4/keltia-uucp-2.9) id XAA06081; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 23:48:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199612261603.RAA11237@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55.04 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2837 In-Reply-To: <199612261603.RAA11237@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Dec 26, 1996 17:03:21 +0100 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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