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[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 03:53:54AM -0700, Studded wrote:
> Joseph Koshy wrote:
> >
> > Synopsis: Heading fix for 'w' on long-name systems
> >
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> > State-Changed-By: jkoshy
> > State-Changed-When: Thu May 21 01:47:15 PDT 1998
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > Rev 1.27 of usr.bin/w/w.c has a generalized fix for this problem.
>
> Thanks to both of you for your very good work. I diff'ed -Current and
> -Stable and w.c compiles and runs clean with all the changes. Think you
> could merge w.c for -Stable up to what's in 1.27? Everything else in
> that directory is up to date.

As this is biting me now that I'm thinking about 16 char username ;)
Is there any reason this hasn't been MFC'd? I don't see it in my latest
cvs co, and the patch looks to apply with narry a change.

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[Studded]

Hans Petter Bieker wrote:

>
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>
> > As this is biting me now that I'm thinking about 16 char username ;)
> > Is there any reason this hasn't been MFC'd? I don't see it in my latest
> > cvs co, and the patch looks to apply with narry a change.
>

> That would break old wtmp files...

How will changing the way 'w' calculates its header size break wtmp
files?

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[Studded]

Hans Petter Bieker wrote:

>
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Studded wrote:
>
> > How will changing the way 'w' calculates its header size break wtmp
> > files?
>

> Well, the old files has a lenght of 8. If you read that with a fixed
> size of 16 something breaks. Just read the info about upgrading to v3.0..

Nothing personal, but you clearly have no idea what we're talking about
here. That commit refers to calculating the size of the header for the
'w' command based on the maximum username size on that machine. It has
nothing to do with any files, that's a whole seperate issue.