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Re: sgi 8.3.9: last/wtmp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jun 30 19:31:48 1999
Message-Id: <199906302331.TAA02846@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: mbarker@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:17:56 EDT."
<199906302317.TAA03493@small-gods.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:31:40 EDT
> It's usually best to frob your mail headers if you're submitting a bug
> as systest. Hard to answer them otherwise.
Actually that was me. I realized right after I sent the mail that I
forgot to add the from line. Unfortunately, you replied too quickly,
since I was about to drop a note saying it was me. :-)
> We have no software in the loop between xterm and wtmp and last. So
> if the behavior changed in IRIX 6.5, it's pretty much an "oh well"
> unless we think it's a real problem. Which I don't think we do.
I thought we'd encountered this and done somethign in a prevous
release, although I could be wrong. I don't have a real problem with
the "oh well" atitude here, but it may deserve a mention in some docs.
Jonathon
