On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2026-03-13 10:59:11 -0300, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote: > > From the glibc standpoint my plan is just to make the accounting database > > function no-op [1] (I hopefully to get this in the next 2.44 release). > > > > And I think Thorsten Kukuk already adapted most of the usages in current > > distros [2][3] using similar strategy, along with a better systemd > > integration. I am not sure if/when distros are incorporating his work. > > > > [1] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=37271 > > [2] https://www.thkukuk.de/blog/Y2038_glibc_lastlog_64bit/ > > [3] https://www.thkukuk.de/blog/Y2038_glibc_utmp_64bit/ > > FYI, utmp has been reintroduced in Debian for libutempter (and thus > applications that use this library), because systemd was not working > or at least not sufficiently documented: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1125682
They introduced the old "hack" to get "wall" working without solving the problem. What will happen now again: all people having xterm running will get the wall message in all terminals. People not using a terminal (so most of the normal users, not developers) will not see this message, because web browsers and other graphical applications don't show them. The correct solution is, that the desktop environments register a session, and if there is a wall message, show that in an own dialog, so that everybody get's the message once. Not the one person 50 times, the others not at all. Regards, Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Future Technologies SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jochen Jaser, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich, (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
