Re: HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

From: Wilkinson, Alex <alex.wilkinson_at_dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:41:51 +0800 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:00 UTC

    0n Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:36:56PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: 

    >on 13/01/2010 21:42 Ed Schouten said the following:
    >> Hello everyone,
    >> 
    >> I just made various commits to FreeBSD HEAD to remove our old user
    >> accounting database interface (see utmp(5)) and replace it by the POSIX
    >> standardized utmpx interface (see getutxent(3)).
    >
    >Ed,
    >
    >please pardon my ignorance but will I have to do anything with utmp/wtmp/etc files
    >after upgrading my system to the new code?
    >Will lasr still correctly show logins that happened before the upgrade?

seems to still work:
[FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202270:]

   #last
   root      pts/5    :0                     Thu 14 Jan 20:20 - 20:20  (00:00)
   user      pts/3    hostname.dsto.defence. Thu 14 Jan 20:14   still logged in
   user      ttyv1                           Thu 14 Jan 12:40   still logged in
   boot time                                 Thu 14 Jan 12:40

  -Alex

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