bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option

[Dima Dorfman]

The following reply was made to PR bin/57089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dima Dorfman <dima at trit.org>
To: Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:54:10 +0000

 Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         57089
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       "w" does not honor the -n option
 > 	
 > >Description:
 > w's -n option is supposed to prevent resolution of the network addresses
 > that users are connecting from.  On my 5.1-CURRENT system, built on
 > 2003-09-19, this is not the case.
 
 I think the "-n" option is intended to prevent name resolution to
 avoid a display delay--not necessarily to display numeric addresses
 (name resolution can be slow, possibly requiring dialing out the
 Internet, and so on, so it's useful to be able to tell w(1) not to do
 it).  If utmp already has a name, it can be displayed without
 incurring any lookup delay, so w(1) does so.
 
 Hope this helps,
 
 Dima.