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Pedro F. Giffuni
d915a14ef0 libc: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using mis-identified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
2017-11-25 17:12:48 +00:00
Ed Schouten
98c63a48e9 Perform several small cleanups to the utmpx code.
- Massively reduce BSS usage. Let futx_to_utx() dynamically allocate the
  structure. There is only a very small amount of applications out there
  that needs to use the utmpx database. Wasting 1 KB on unused
  structures makes little sense.

- Just let getutxid() search for matching ut_id's for any *PROCESS-type.
  This makes the code a bit more future-proof.

- Fix a POSIX-mistake: when reading POSIX and the OpenSolaris
  implementation, getutxline() must return USER_PROCESS and
  LOGIN_PROCESS records whose ut_lines match. When reading POSIX, it
  seems LOGIN_PROCESS should not use ut_line at the first place. I have
  reported this issue.
2010-01-17 21:40:05 +00:00
Ed Schouten
a627ac61ab Implement <utmpx.h>.
The utmpx interface is the standardized interface of the user accounting
database. The standard only defines a subset of the functions that were
present in System V-like systems.

I'd like to highlight some of the traits my implementation has:

- The standard allows the on-disk format to be different than the
  in-memory representation (struct utmpx). Most operating systems don't
  do this, but we do. This allows us to keep our ABI more stable, while
  giving us the opportunity to modify the on-disk format. It also allows
  us to use a common file format across different architectures (i.e.
  byte ordering).

- Our implementation of pututxline() also updates wtmp and lastlog (now
  called utx.log and utx.lastlogin). This means the databases are more
  likely to be in sync.

- Care must be taken that our implementation discard any fields that are
  not applicable. For example, our DEAD_PROCESS records do not hold a
  TTY name. Just a time stamp, a record identifier and a process
  identifier. It also guarantees that strings (ut_host, ut_line and
  ut_user) are null terminated. ut_id is obviously not null terminated,
  because it's not a string.

- The API and its behaviour should be conformant to POSIX, but there may
  be things that slightly deviate from the standard. This implementation
  uses separate file descriptors when writing to the log files. It also
  doesn't use getutxid() to search for a field to overwrite. It uses an
  allocation strategy similar to getutxid(), but prevents DEAD_PROCESS
  records from accumulating.

Make sure libulog doesn't overwrite the manpages shipped with our C
library. Also keep the symbol list in Symbol.map sorted.

I'll bump __FreeBSD_version later this evening. I first want to convert
everything to <utmpx.h> and get rid of <utmp.h>.
2010-01-13 17:29:55 +00:00