Re: Usernames > 16 characters

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 6:59 PM -0700 8/18/03, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Garance wrote:
> :
> : What would be best to do is finally implement the
> : utmpx-related routines from POSIX/SingleUnixSpec.
>
>     utmpx is not any better then utmp.  [...]   Something like
>     the getpw*() function set is a far better API.  Those
>     structures contain string pointers rather then embedded
>     char arrays.
>
>     So whatever succeeds utmp it isn't going to be utmpx.

Huh.  I had looked at the *utxent() routines several times,
and somehow thought all the values were pointers to strings
instead of fixed arrays.  Looking closer, and checking on
solaris and aix, I see I was wrong about that.  Arg.  Why
did they go and do it that way?

Still, even that API would be better than having any programs
going directly to any specific file, wouldn't it?  Skip the
pututxline() routine, but provide the others?

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