From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 16:40:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB4616A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.nixsys.be (gateway.nixsys.be [195.144.77.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341A643D58 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:40:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from wotan.home.paeps.cx (wotan.home.paeps.cx [IPv6:2001:838:37f:10:a00:20ff:fe9b:138c]) by gateway.nixsys.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CB22D6 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:40:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from fasolt.home.paeps.cx (fasolt.home.paeps.cx [IPv6:2001:838:37f:10:20a:e6ff:fe7d:c08]) by wotan.home.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D49618B for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:40:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from fasolt.home.paeps.cx (philip@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fasolt.home.paeps.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAJGeMpB034952 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:40:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from philip@fasolt.home.paeps.cx) Received: (from philip@localhost) by fasolt.home.paeps.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAJGeM0c034951 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:40:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from philip) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:40:21 +0100 From: Philip Paeps To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041119164021.GA34887@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20041118164356.GA46185@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20041119081734.GC676@loge.nixsys.be> <20041119085054.GB83736@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041119085054.GB83736@gothmog.gr> X-Date-in-Rome: ante diem XIII Kalendas Decembres MMDCCLVII ab Urbe Condida X-PGP-Fingerprint: FA74 3C27 91A6 79D5 F6D3 FC53 BF4B D0E6 049D B879 X-Message-Flag: Get a proper mailclient! Organization: Happily Disorganized User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: bug of misc/screen and fifos or ours? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:40:25 -0000 On 2004-11-19 10:50:54 (+0200), Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-11-19 09:17, Philip Paeps wrote: > > On 2004-11-18 18:43:56 (+0200), Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > The screen-4.0.2 version that misc/screen installs is apparently the latest > > > version of screen available. It also contains a zillion bugs, is written in > > > a very insecure style, it uses an antiquated version of autoconf script, > > > etc. > > > > Unrelated, perhaps, but has anyone else noticed that on sparc64, the date > > stuck in utmp seems to always be '19700101': > > I'll have a look later today and this weekend to the utmp handling of > screen. It may be just a bug that shows up on 64-bit architectures. It works on Alpha and AMD64. So it's more likely something showing up only on bigendian systems. Anyone tried on PPC? :-) - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@freebsd.org subscribed to the list. BOFH Excuse #419: Repeated reboots of the system failed to solve problem