Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:00:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option Message-ID: <200309222200.h8MM0T0u087337@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/57089; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:54:10 +0000 Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote: > > >Number: 57089 > >Category: bin > >Synopsis: "w" does not honor the -n option > > >Description: > w's -n option is supposed to prevent resolution of the network addresses > that users are connecting from. On my 5.1-CURRENT system, built on > 2003-09-19, this is not the case. I think the "-n" option is intended to prevent name resolution to avoid a display delay--not necessarily to display numeric addresses (name resolution can be slow, possibly requiring dialing out the Internet, and so on, so it's useful to be able to tell w(1) not to do it). If utmp already has a name, it can be displayed without incurring any lookup delay, so w(1) does so. Hope this helps, Dima.
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