Author: ed
Date: Wed Jan 13 19:25:03 2010
New Revision: 202219
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/202219
Log:
Complete the migration towards utmpx.
- Add a notice to UPDATING, explaining users may need to recompile
applications that use the old database.
- Bump __FreeBSD_version.
Modified:
head/UPDATING
head/sys/sys/param.h
Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING Wed Jan 13 19:07:48 2010 (r202218)
+++ head/UPDATING Wed Jan 13 19:25:03 2010 (r202219)
@@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.
machines to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run
ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
+20100113:
+ The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
+ the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
+ Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
+ making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
+ The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
+ last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
+
+ All applications in the base system use utmpx. This means only
+ local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
+ utmp database files. These applications must be rebuilt to make
+ use of utmpx.
+
+ After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
+ log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
+ assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.
+
20100108:
Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
Modified: head/sys/sys/param.h
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/sys/param.h Wed Jan 13 19:07:48 2010 (r202218)
+++ head/sys/sys/param.h Wed Jan 13 19:25:03 2010 (r202219)
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
* in the range 5 to 9.
*/
#undef __FreeBSD_version
-#define __FreeBSD_version 900006 /* Master, propagated to newvers */
+#define __FreeBSD_version 900007 /* Master, propagated to newvers */
#ifndef LOCORE
#include <sys/types.h>
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