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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: date change and wtmp record
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 09:04:09 +0200 (MET DST)
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As Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= wrote:

>     Hmnmmm, several people responded to my question and told me that
> they have '{'.  
>      So, I changed the date to see what happens to my wtmp:
> 
> % last date
> date      }                         Mon May  6 09:41   still logged in
> date      |                         Mon May  6 09:42 

Strange.  This part of /usr/src/bin/date/date.c is responsible for the
wtmp record:

	/* set the time */
	if (nflag || netsettime(tval)) {
		logwtmp("|", "date", "");
		tv.tv_sec = tval;
		tv.tv_usec = 0;
		if (settimeofday(&tv, (struct timezone *)NULL))
			err(1, "settimeofday (timeval)");
		logwtmp("{", "date", "");
		        ^^^
	}

Btw., your ``still logged in'' is also bogus (most likely out of
`last' not recognizing the ``}'' as a special token), mine looks like:

date      {                         Sun May  5 16:15 
date      |                         Sun May  5 16:14 

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)