From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 7 16:24:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA27949 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA27907 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA01870; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:21:20 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA02625; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:21:19 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id BAA10873; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:15:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:15:19 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: proff@suburbia.net Subject: Re: w problem References: <19970107220300.5821.qmail@suburbia.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970107220300.5821.qmail@suburbia.net>; from proff@suburbia.net on Jan 8, 1997 09:03:00 +1100 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As proff@suburbia.net wrote: > Was this utmp change entirely necessary? Yes. It was long overdue. > From now on, xf86 has to produce two > versions of its binary distribution, pre and post utmp mangle. No. There are other possible fixes, they have been discussed, and they will eventually be implemented before FreeBSD 3.0 is released. (Concentrating all the handling in libutil, basically.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)