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Re: utmpd

To: drepper at cygnus dot com
Subject: Re: utmpd
From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:16:55 +0200 (MET DST)
CC: libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <m3vh1gsikm.fsf@localhost.localnet>

   From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
   Date: 17 Apr 2000 11:12:09 -0700

   I'm inclinded to remove this program.  It was of questionable
   usefulness for 2.1 and I think we can argue that with 2.2 people
   should have updated their programs.  Anybody disagree?

No, please remove it.

I'm still thinking of re-writing utmpd.  Its purpose would no longer
be compatibility with libc5, but enabling non-suid programs to
manipulate their own utmp entries.  But this would probably need to be
a complete rewrite, so removing the current code wouldn't be a problem
at all (and the old code would still be in the CVS repository).  You
might want to leave in the hooks for utmpd in the library code, or at
least the framework that makes it possible to add other backends.

Mark

References:
- utmpd
  - From: Ulrich Drepper

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