Hi Kostik, * Kostik Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can we switch to %x ? Or even, use some radix encoding of the number, > to allow alphabetical symbols too ?
I guess that would break a lot of existing libraries. For example: older RELENG_7/CURRENT libcs might still use TIOCGPTN. This ioctl just returns a number that is just printed into a device name using "/dev/pts/%u" as a format. I also suspect a lot of Linux/Solaris-minded software expects the names to be in decimal form. I also thought about that, but the risks are probably too high. I think it's better to just redesign our utmp/wtmp/lastlog system. I guess we could do something like this: - Implement utmpx. At first utmpx should just be a set of wrappers around utmp/wtmp/lastlog. - Migrate all applications to utmpx. - Change the utmpx code to use some new fancy file format. I think I can finish the first step before 8.0 if I start working on this one of these weeks. -- Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/
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