From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 15 00:25:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16357 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16351 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14479; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:25:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3625A362.B6EBB64@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:25:22 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-1009 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Petter Bieker CC: "Matthew D. Fuller" , bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6325 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hans Petter Bieker wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Studded wrote: > > > How will changing the way 'w' calculates its header size break wtmp > > files? > > Well, the old files has a lenght of 8. If you read that with a fixed > size of 16 something breaks. Just read the info about upgrading to v3.0.. Nothing personal, but you clearly have no idea what we're talking about here. That commit refers to calculating the size of the header for the 'w' command based on the maximum username size on that machine. It has nothing to do with any files, that's a whole seperate issue. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Go PADRES! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message