[PATCH 20/52] login: Add 64-bit time support to utmp/utmpx

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Apr 27 14:18:42 GMT 2021


* Andreas Schwab:

> On Apr 27 2021, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
>> never expired, only overwritten if the lookup key is used again.
>
> wtmp entries are never overwritten, they are only appended.

So do you think that the wtmp interfaces are worth preserving?  That
would be updwtmp/updwtmx and logwtmp?

Thanks,
Florian



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