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Re: max_{login,group}len in /etc/security
From: Christos Zoulas (christos
zoulas.com)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 11:09:24 CDT
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In article <20040412174546.GA23415multics.mit.edu>,
John Hawkinson <jhawkMIT.EDU> wrote:
>Steven M. Bellovin <smbresearch.att.com> wrote on Sun, 11 Apr 2004
>at 20:58:51 -0400 in <20040412005851.E51087B44berkshire.research.att.com>:
>
>> I didn't check. It's amusing to look at, say, 'talkd', and see what it
>> does. (I'll save you the trouble -- it uses source code, separately
>> compiled, from 'who', creating a dependency which is in no way obvious
>> to anyone hacking on the 'who' code.)
>
>Since you noticed, would you care to put a comment in the 'who' code?
- all the code in the tree knows aboth about utmp and utmpx.
- most (all?) code in the base tree handles utmp reading via utmpentry.[ch].
- I meant to move utmp entry functions to libutil at some point.
christos
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