Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:36:49 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d problem Message-ID: <19970515003649.30089@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199705141427.AAA00677@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on Thu, May 15, 1997 at 12:27:33AM %2B1000 References: <19970514123817.KP49302@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705141427.AAA00677@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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On Thu, May 15, 1997 at 12:27:33AM +1000, David Nugent wrote: >> If you do however, it might be worth the while to do the deed. David >> (N.), could you take it? > >Yes, I've been working on it. > >Lastlogin (part of the 'utmp' package) was relative easy. Defining >an extensible format for utmp/wtmp wasn't such a pushover, >unfortunately, once I had thought through all of the issues. > >If I post the code I'm working on to you for comment, is anyone >interested in looking at it? Bear in mind that there's a time-frame >to be kept with Xfree 3.3's impending release - we can either miss >this completely and hope that there's another release prior FreeBSD >3.0 (possible?) or we can finish the api now, so comments should be >fast. [If I had started this a couple of weeks ago when it first >came up, there wouldn't be such a hurry, but I had other things to >do then. :-(]. If there are major objections to the approach I've >taken, then we'll just hold off and not worry about Xfree 3.3, and >resolve it in our own good time. I don't want you to rush this just to get it into XFree86 3.3. It is better to get it right first time. David
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