bin/76089: The "-n" option in /usr/bin/w is broken

[Sergey Matveychuk]

The following reply was made to PR bin/76089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem at FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, jesper at hackunite.net,
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Subject: Re: bin/76089: The "-n" option in /usr/bin/w is broken
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:50:44 +0300

 w(1) behaviour has changed with brien commit in w.c revision 1.48.
 
 Funny, but looks like '-n' options works right after commit, not before.
 
 The reason is utmp holds a host name and w(1) with '-n' flag _do_ 
 resolve hostname back in IP address and without '-n' don't resolve it.
 It's confised.
 
 IMHO to be more robust, we should make utmp to hold an IP address 
 instead of a hostname and change all applications that use it. As bonus 
 it will fix a delay on login when resolving does not work. And last(1) 
 will show more useful IP address instead of changable hostname.
 
 But I'm not sure about standards.
 
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