Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:25:22 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: Hans Petter Bieker <zerium@webindex.no> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6325 Message-ID: <3625A362.B6EBB64@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981015090906.21239B-100000@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no>
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Hans Petter Bieker wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Studded wrote:
>
> > How will changing the way 'w' calculates its header size break wtmp
> > files?
>
> Well, the old files has a lenght of 8. If you read that with a fixed
> size of 16 something breaks. Just read the info about upgrading to v3.0..
Nothing personal, but you clearly have no idea what we're talking about
here. That commit refers to calculating the size of the header for the
'w' command based on the maximum username size on that machine. It has
nothing to do with any files, that's a whole seperate issue.
Doug
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