On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 7:51 PM Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Roman Bakshansky: > > > The full RFC, including preliminary database schemas and API drafts, > > is available in the discussion repository: > > > > https://github.com/bakshansky/linux-auth-logs > > I don't understand how SQLite (without a daemon) addresses the locking > issue. WAL mode still uses fcntl locking.
It doesn't, that's why wtmpdb is using a daemon for this. With pam_lastlog2, the messages aren't important or reliable enough to justify the overhead. But if you want, you would need to introduce a daemon, too. 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)
