On 3 Jan 2001, Martin J. Laubach wrote:

# Date: 3 Jan 2001 13:44:58 GMT
# From: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@emsi.priv.at>
# To: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
# Newsgroups: emsi.netbsd.tech.userlevel
# Subject: User "sleeper" in wall
# 
#   While strolling through our source tree, I noticed that in
# wall/wall.c there is a definition of a user "sleeper" which
# is skipped while scanning the utmp records.

...!  My goodness, that's *still* there?

Maybe I should change my login name to "sleeper" and avoid all the pesky
broadcasts :-).

#   That code has been there since the beginning of time, but
# does it have any reason to be and can it be eliminated?

I have a hard time believing it was much else than debugging code, myself.

# 	mjl
# 


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