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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: truss, trace ??
To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:46:17 -0700 (MST)
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> > Cyclic file types imply record orientation.
> [.....]
> 
> Unless of course you don't mind having a truncated line at the start
> of your log ;)
> 
> This (IMHO) would be more "natural", 'cos there shouldn't be any
> "record" knowledge at that level.

"Natural" for text files, maybe.

For the wtmp file, it's not so natural... it's wierd, even, since you
can't resync to a valid record boundry without sync data built into
the data format.

For text files, the sync data can be "after the first \n", since it
is a variable length record format with "\n" record seperators, but
how do you resync wtmp?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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