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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.onenet.net!news.ou.edu!leto.ou.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Strange output from `w' Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:18:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5doktg$lfs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5cqi7p$muq@newstoo.ericsson.se> <5cvl2e$ll3@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5d7lne$jg0$1@news.ziplink.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35326 mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: > Well, I'm doing the opposite with the same result: (Of course.) > Yet my w's output is even worse: > w: /dev//sí2ttyp6: No such file or directory Yep, you should probably have followed freebsd-current, this has been discussed there. Basically, it's since the utmp.h has been changed. > Is not X using the _shared_ libraries to write to utmp? Then why are > those libraries not substituted with new versions in 3.0? Alas, there were no standard interfaces for accessing the utmp and wtmp files by now. Those few interfaces in libutil are poor enough, and they haven't even been used at all by the X11 programs. We basically settled to the idea of a better interface for FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE, and XFree86 agreed to use this interface. This would indeed restrict the effect of future changes to replacing a shared lib. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)