Re: Proposal for write(1) addition

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> That could be easily fixed by adding a utmp-writing daemon that took
>> unix domain messages from clients.  [...]
> Adding it now would end up in complexity of another daemon running
> and using memory for something elementary as write, [...]

Um, note the wording: a _utmp-writing_ daemon.  This would be for
creating (and presumably cleaning up) utmp entries, not for backending
write(1).

Or at least that's how I read it.  Thor?

And yes, I agree it would be good to have something of the sort.  But
existing history makes that difficult.

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