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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:18:40 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0?
Message-ID:  <20090401211840.GQ13393@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20090401210835.GP13393@hoeg.nl>
References:  <A48E38AADF784030A7496551F1416A3B@multiplay.co.uk> <20090401205306.GO13393@hoeg.nl> <20090401205703.GX31897@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20090401210835.GP13393@hoeg.nl>

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* Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote:
> I also thought about that, but the risks are probably too high. I think
> it's better to just redesign our utmp/wtmp/lastlog system. I guess we
> could do something like this:

I forgot one step:

> - Implement utmpx. At first utmpx should just be a set of wrappers
>   around utmp/wtmp/lastlog.
> - Migrate all applications to utmpx.

- Remove ttyslot() and <utmp.h>.

> - Change the utmpx code to use some new fancy file format.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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