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author | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-01-13 19:25:03 +0000 |
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committer | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-01-13 19:25:03 +0000 |
commit | f431530c4a0f324b3e68eb8cf3b850d5ccda8ee4 (patch) | |
tree | 296e35d3a41f5c6da6ca65ab45e33fc1b2b48369 /UPDATING | |
parent | 4f31d2c5a61c36bfed349f716ab4d35155f799f4 (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
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@@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.x IS SLOW: 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 |