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* Remove utmpx stub from libulog.ed2010-01-131-23/+32
| | | | | | | | | I'm not increasing the shlib major version for this, because not a single application outside the base system should have used these functions in such a short timespan. Rewrite ulog_login(3) and ulog_logout(3) to build on top of the utmpx implementation in libc.
* The hostname passed to ulog_login(3) may be optional.ed2009-12-111-1/+2
| | | | | | | Don't trip on a null pointer being passed to this function when performing a local login. Noticed by: dougb
* Massively extend libulog:ed2009-12-051-79/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Just like struct utmp, store strings inside struct utmpx itself. This is needed to make things like pututxline() work. - Add ut_id and ut_pid fields, even though they have little use in our implementation. - It turns out our "reboot" wtmp entries indicate a system boot, so remove REBOOT_TIME - Implement getutxline() and pututxline - Add getutxuser() and setutxfile(), which allows us to crawl wtmp and lastlog files as well. - Add _ULOG_POSIX_NAMES, so we can already use the POSIX names if we really want to.
* Add a new library: libulog.ed2009-12-031-0/+135
One of the things I really want to do, is to get rid of the limitations of our current utmp(5) mechanism: - It only allows 8 byte TTY device names. - The hostname only allows 16 bytes of storage. I'm not a big fan of <utmpx.h>, but I think we should at least try to add parts of it. Unfortunately we cannot implement <utmpx.h>, because we miss various fields, such as ut_id, ut_pid, etc. The API provided by libulog shares some similarities with <utmpx.h>, so it shouldn't be too hard to port these applications eventually. In most simple cases, it should just be a matter of removing the ulog_ prefix everywhere. As a bonus, it also implements a function called ulog_login_pseudo(), which allows unprivileged applications to write log entries, provided they have a valid file descriptor to a pseudo-terminal master device. libulog will allow a smoother transition to a new file format by adding a library interface to deal with utmp/wtmp/lastlog files. I initially thought about adding the functionality to libutil, but because I'm not planning on keeping this library around forever, we'd better keep it separated. Next items on the todo list: 1. Port applications in the base system (and ports) to libulog, instead of letting them use <utmp.h>. 2. Remove <utmp.h>, implement <utmpx.h> and reimplement this library on top. 3. Port as many applications as possible back to <utmpx.h>.
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