HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>.

[Ed Schouten]

Hello Yvan,

* VANHULLEBUS Yvan <vanhu at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> We're working on this, but as we have now to work with both utmp.h and 
> utmpx.h (at least for FreeBSD releases and FreeBSD CURRENT), we're
> trying to find a clean way to solve the issue.

I think the cleanest solution would be to split them off completely.
Most projects do things like:

#define utmp utmpx

but this really makes the code harder to interpret. Just moving all the
utmp stuff into a small set of routines that you port per operating
system is probably the best way to go.

Greetings,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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