Subject: Re: utmp file format change
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/21/2001 17:30:31
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:15:43PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com> writes:
>=20
> >Note that this need not necessarily be based on some `background daemon'=
.  A
> >special device node with in-kernel emulation would also work; such a dev=
ice
>=20
> but why do things in the kernel that can be implemented in userland?

Don't we have a special filesystem which can be abused for this type of=20
stunts? This would put most of the burden into a userland program, while
providing perfect synchronization.

Regards,
	-is

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