From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 8 09:17:50 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA17906 for current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 09:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA17894 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 09:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from cantina.clinet.fi (root@cantina.clinet.fi [194.100.0.15]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.8.2/8.6.4) with ESMTP id TAA10685; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:17:26 +0200 (EET) Received: (hsu@localhost) by cantina.clinet.fi (8.8.2/8.6.4) id TAA08170; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:17:25 +0200 (EET) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:17:25 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <199612081717.TAA08170@cantina.clinet.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of 8 Dec 1996 10:46:21 +0200 Subject: Re: last in -current Organization: Clinet Ltd, Espoo, Finland References: <1075.850034047@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" 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 :-). -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@clinet.fi mobile +358-40-5519679 work +358-9-43542270 fax -4555276