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Re: [Nmh-workers] Revert utmpx change?
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Revert utmpx change? |
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:13:41 -0500 |
>When I was upgrading the OpenBSD nmh package from 1.4 to 1.5rc1, the build
>errored out, because OpenBSD does not have utmpx.h. Speaking with other
>devs implies that this is unlikely to ever be supported on OpenBSD.
Seriously? What the hell?
utmpx is part of POSIX; utmp is not. There was a strong push for POSIX
compatibility last year and in a brief survey I found that everyone I
looked at had utmpx support. I guess I missed OpenBSD. Googling
"utmpx OpenBSD" ... yeah, okay, I guess I don't need to say anything more.
>Reverting 7ba29497ff3f164e2a507eda35e81f1cb0658c74 lets nmh build again
>on OpenBSD. Can this change be applied?
I am reluctant to bring this code back, as it was messy. But ... let me
offer a compromise. The code is only needed by rcvtty (will output a message
to your terminal) and slocal (actually, looking at slocal ... that usage
seems to be undocumented; anyone know what the deal is with that?). I
suspect you don't use those features. Would you be happy with code that
just disabled that support on OpenBSD?
--Ken