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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: utmp ut_name
To: gclarkii@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:06:25 -0600 (CST)
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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

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