On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Chris Torek wrote:

: I seem to recall that SysV now has a text-based umtp-equivalent
: file ("utmpx"), with the old utmp stuff around for compatibility.
: This seems like it might be the way to go, if it is not too badly
: broken.  Among other things, it could remove the length limits
: entirely, if the API uses dynamic allocation.

What we *COULD* do to make the transition easier, and work for older
binaries, is implement a compatibility device (/dev/utmp, symlinked from the
appropriate place) which does conversion of the read(), write() and seek()
operations on utmp.  Controlled by a kernel compile time option, of course.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)