From owner-freebsd-current  Sun Jul  6 10:58:44 1997
Return-Path: <owner-current>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29955
          for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 10:58:44 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA29950
          for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 10:58:40 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA16050; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 10:53:18 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Message-Id: <199707061753.KAA16050@phaeton.artisoft.com>
Subject: Re: long usernames in top
To: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 10:53:18 -0700 (MST)
Cc: terry@lambert.org, ache@nagual.pp.ru, wosch@apfel.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199707060737.RAA01362@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> from "David Nugent" at Jul 6, 97 05:36:58 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

[ ... top ... ]

> >  Plus the thing is being actively maintained by an agency
> >  other than FreeBSD, so unless the job was done completely, it's
> >  likely that it would become a FreeBSD-only maintenance nightmare.
> 
> Nightmare? Terry, this is why we use cvs and vendor branches.

better to contribute the code back to the top maintainer, and
not involve FreeBSD directly at all.


> In any case, FreeBSD is not the only OS with support for >8 length
> usernames.

And this is why.


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.