From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 3 12:22:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA12585 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 12:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA12571 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 12:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA18747 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:21:21 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA19186 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:21:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA15985; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:00:30 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:00:30 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utmp changes References: <18403.852317159@critter.dk.tfs.com> <199701031916.LAA15717@precipice.shockwave.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701031916.LAA15717@precipice.shockwave.com>; from Paul Traina on Jan 3, 1997 11:16:25 -0800 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Traina wrote: > To start the ball rolling, let me just suggest the following. I know it's > not pretty, and I'm not so sure that the remote ssh key belongs in utmp, > but this is what I conceive as changing. Please, do also add a magic number, sort of. I already had a hard time in doing the heuristics for the current transition, have a look at src/tools/3.0-upgrade/cvt-wtmp.c. If we're going to bloat the structure by much more than we did now, we should also add some sort of magic number to allow for a better heuristics. -- 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. ;-)