From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 6 13:23:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA29594 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:23:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA29581 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA16803 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:22:55 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04463 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:22:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA05093; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:02:54 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:02:54 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: utmp changes References: <18569.852321999@critter.dk.tfs.com> <199701061401.QAA21728@cantina.clinet.fi> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from David Nugent on Jan 7, 1997 01:54:48 +1100 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Nugent wrote: > utmp is a different kettle. I can't see it being anything but > a fixed record field without losing significantly. Either that, > or the "ttyslot" idea needs to be revisited. It needs to be revisited anyway. I think it's an ugly crock that you are not allowed to shuffle your /etc/ttys file at runtime. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)