Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:17:25 +0200 (EET) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: last in -current Message-ID: <199612081717.TAA08170@cantina.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of 8 Dec 1996 10:46:21 %2B0200 References: <1075.850034047@time.cdrom.com>
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Once you've done that, the creation of a "wtmp migrator" becomes
pretty easy.
Simple character formats allow modifying the format without building tools
for backwards compatibility. Would require providing getwtmp and similar
functions for access and would break quite a bit of programs, but might be
worth it. Has posix anything to say on this? To me it seems that messing
up this much just for 8 more bytes for user id seems short-sighted (solaris
went to 32 in utmpx, I'm not sure about that :-).
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