On Sunday 06 December 2015 22:00:09 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Sunday December 06 2015 21:52:21 David Faure wrote: > > > > Question is, how useful is this in KPty? > > > > `utempter is a privileged helper program that writes utmp/wtmp entries for > > unprivileged programs.` > > I can read, you know ;) > > > > > Does utmp or wtmp exist on OSX? > > Hmm, yes, but deprecated -- > > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/utmp.5.html > > So probably not worth it. > > There's utmpx nowadays, which isn't marked as deprecated, and is backwards > compatible with utmp: > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/utmpx.5.html > > Question is, what are we missing out on without it? Is this what kdesu is > based on, for instance?
It's just about logging, so "based on" is not really true. I'm pretty sure kdesu works even without logging to utmp. But I don't really need to tell you any of this, given that you can read :-) -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
