From owner-freebsd-standards Fri Apr 5 11:11:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from quic.net (romulus.quic.net [216.23.27.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E378337B419 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:11:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3093 invoked by uid 1032); 5 Apr 2002 19:11:31 -0000 From: utsl@quic.net Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:11:31 -0500 To: Brian Somers Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: utmpx implementation Message-ID: <20020405191131.GA2287@quic.net> References: <20020322001031.GA21735@quic.net> <200204051724.g35HOeq7045079@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200204051724.g35HOeq7045079@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:24:40PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > I have written a utmpx implementation. It is written from scratch from > > the SUSv2 spec (also in POSIX, I believe), and is under BSD license. I > > have also examined other systems, and included what made sense to me. > > > > I have partially implemented reentrant functions, but haven't finished yet. > > Suggestions and patches are welcome. > [.....] > > Hi, > > This is just a comfort message to say that you haven't been ignored. > I'm very interested in this implementation and will get around to > trying it out RSN. Thank you. I'm using it for a project I'm working on, and it was a huge help with source compatibility. I am also looking writing an implemention of libshadow, which would provide getspent and related functions, but work with /etc/master.passwd. Reading will be easy, but I'm still thinking about how to do writing. ---Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message