HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>
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thierry at FreeBSD.org
thierry at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 14 10:08:49 UTC 2010
Selon "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au> le Jeu 14
jan 06:51:30 2010 :
> 0n Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:42:54PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
>
> >I've noticed there is some breakage in ports, but it shouldn't be too
> >serious. I've seen cases where an application includes <utmp.h>, even
> >though it doesn't use anything provided by that header. In other cases
> >they used fields like UT_NAMESIZE to derive the maximum user name length
> >supported by the system, which is clearly not what this definition was
> >intended for. I've incremented __FreeBSD_version to 900007 to identify
> >the import of utmpx. In case a certain port breaks badly, let me know
> >and I'm willing to take a look at it.
> >
> >Be sure to give it a try and report any issues. Thanks!
>
> Great stuff ed! Thanks! I thought I would test this with my terminal
> of choice
> (x11/rxvt-unicode) and found some breakage (Cc'ing $MAINTAINER).
Thanks for the notification! I'm away ATM, but I'll check it ASAP.
Regards,
--
Th. Thomas.
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