From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 3 21:58:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA01020 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:58:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA01000; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA24924; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:57:48 -0800 (PST) To: Paul Traina cc: phk@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utmp changes In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jan 1997 09:37:19 PST." <199701031737.JAA00399@precipice.shockwave.com> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 21:57:47 -0800 Message-ID: <24920.852357467@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm just back from a few weeks out of the country, so my memory may be > stale, but I thought if we were going to break utmp compatibility, we > were going to put in ALL of the requested changes right now, instead > of doing it bit by bit. > > I believe P-H wanted a larger field for the host size (16 is silly) and > an additional field for the IPv[46] address. If so, let's get them done > now before we have to re-compile and link every application twice. I've no objection, and was kind of wondering about that myself. Jordan