Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:10:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option Message-ID: <200309222210.h8MMA3xT093594@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/57089; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:07:46 -0500
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At 2003-09-22T21:54:10Z, Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> writes:
> 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.
However, that's different from the behavior in 4.x systems (at least, as of
the 4.7 server that I have access to):
kirk@glaaki:/usr/src/usr.bin/w$ w -n
5:06PM up 14 days, 8:36, 3 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.06, 0.01
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
corwin p0 12.218.138.143 1:09PM 1:10 psql template1
corwin p1 12.218.138.143 Sat09PM 21:47 -bash (bash)
kirk p2 208.162.254.126 4:59PM - w -n
I'd definitely think that's the more appropriate behavior, since it would be
analogous to the "-n" (mnemmonic: "numeric") options of other utilities
such as netstat.
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Kirk Strauser
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