christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> On Sep 23,  5:46pm, woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: utmpx.h

> | I think a standards-compatible API is mandatory, regardless of whatever
> | might have to happen in the future to support some re-entrant API, as is
> | an extensible, architecture-indpendent, on-disk format.
> 
> Neither Posix, nor X/Open has picked on the api's IIRC. It is only SuSv2,
> and it is not a well thought out api unfortunately.

It was first `standardized' in XPG4.2; SuSv2 contains, among other
things, the XSH5 Base Specification.  It will be in POSIX.1-200x,
albeit as part of the X/Open System Interface (XSI) extension.


- Klaus