[ On Fri, August 16, 1996 at 11:58:18 (+1000), matthew green wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: misc/2668: login-names >8 chars make no fun 
>
> i don't think it's unlikely to always work.  the utmp has a very
> defined format.  there are almost always nuls in the `right' places
> where you would expect them (at the end of the char array fields).

????

Since when?

ut_name, ut_line, and ut_host are defined to exact non-nul terminated
lengths in all utmp.h's I've ever seen, including NetBSD's.

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