bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option

[Kirk Strauser]

The following reply was made to PR bin/57089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com>
To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/57089: "w" does not honor the -n option
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:53:02 -0500

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 At 2003-09-24T06:18:35Z, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wri=
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 >> but is there a good reason not to additionally store the address?
 
 > See utmp(5):
 
 > I believe the format of the structure is also constrained in some way by
 > POSIX, so we may not, even if we wanted to, be able to add arbitrary
 > fields.
 
 Ahhh - that was the part I was wondering about.  It seemed straightforward
 to add to the struct, but I admittedly know nothing about the standards
 involved.
 
 > Personally, I tend to think that storing both the PTR resolution and the
 > address would be a good thing, but when constrained to one the address is
 > DEFINITELY the one we want to keep in preference to a possibly transient
 > name.
 
 I agree completely.  There may be a large number of addresses with the same
 hostname, but the address is (hopefully) a unique identifier.
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 Kirk Strauser
 
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