From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 14 07:37:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA11870 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 07:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA11847 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 07:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id AAA02566; Thu, 15 May 1997 00:36:50 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19970515003649.30089@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:36:49 +1000 From: David Dawes To: David Nugent Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d problem References: <19970514123817.KP49302@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705141427.AAA00677@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199705141427.AAA00677@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on Thu, May 15, 1997 at 12:27:33AM +1000 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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