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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:52:12 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>.
Message-ID:  <20100127105212.23f15f50@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100126200537.GJ77705@hoeg.nl>
References:  <Ubi2Xd2NV2@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <20100126200537.GJ77705@hoeg.nl>

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:05:37 +0100
Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote:

> * Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> wrote:
> > 1. POLA
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/rules.html
> > 
> > $ man utmp
> > does not mention that this interafce is deprectaed (see 11.4)
> 
> First of all, utmp(5) should no longer exist. Second of all, you clearly
> seem to misread section 11.4, which says "whenever possible."
> 
> Instead of just screaming POLA, could you please explain how I could
> have introduced utmpx into FreeBSD without causing any breakage or
> confusion among our users. As someone else already quoted earlier, our
> old utmp interface was a landmine we buried ourselves.
> 

My understanding has always been that POLA doesn't apply to HEAD.  If
you want to use HEAD then learn to live with that.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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