Replacing <utmp.h> with <utmpx.h>

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Sat Jan 9 16:45:47 UTC 2010


On Jan 9, 2010, at 5:04 AM, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some of you probably know that the last couple of weeks I've been  
> slowly
> working on an implementation of <utmpx.h> for FreeBSD:
>
> 	http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/utmpx.h.html
>
> This interface has the following differences when compared to our
> existing `API' described in <utmp.h>:
>
>

Does this have any implications for the compat4x/5x/6x/7x/8x libraries  
that we ship?  Also, what legacy apps that are statically compiled and  
touch utmp/wtmp?

Scott




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