On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:23:20PM -0500, utsl@quic.net wrote: > I've implemented utmpx for FreeBSD, and placed it under BSD license. This > should be a standards-compliant (SUSv2) implementation, that is approximately > equivilent to the utmp in glibc or Solaris. The major difference from Linux > is that it uses /var/run/utmpx, and getutent becomes getutxent. Why these different names, then? I would think that it would help compatibility with Linux programs to use the non-"x" names. Or is there another standard that specifies the "x"? - Jimmy Kaplowitz jimmy@debian.org
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