Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:06:25 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: gclarkii@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utmp ut_name Message-ID: <199601021806.MAA11850@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199601021437.IAA10747@main.gbdata.com> from "Gary Clark II" at Jan 2, 96 08:37:08 am
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> Hello, > > I'm working on a PERL5 interface for Conetic Software's CBASE DB system > and ran into a snag with the ZDaemon. My utmp entry is showing > up as gclarkii:0.0 instead of gclarkii and it was causing the daemon > to fail (it's getting fixed). Is this a new thing or has it been > doing this forever(or close enough:)). > > Thanks for any info. > > Gary > > Gary Clark II (V5VMF) > gclarkii@FreeBSD.ORG if you look at the structure definition in utmp.h it will become immediately apparent why this happens :-) this is one of the cruddier but logical things done to save a few bytes of disk.... it means you have to work harder to process a utmp structure. "no nulls if you have an 8 character name..." ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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