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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