Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 23:32:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: last in -current Message-ID: <199612072232.XAA23616@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961208001011.300A-100000@nagual.ru> from "[?KOI8-R?]" at "Dec 8, 96 00:12:24 am"
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As [?KOI8-R?] wrote: > You can't determine new or old format you parse. There is no > version field in utmp record. So, you can't do anything in the 'last'. ...short of heuristics. :) The `reasonability' of the time_t values, and the requirement that wtmp has them in ascending order, should allow for a lot of heuristics. I think they make fine ``slot marks''. -- 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. ;-)
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