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Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 21:12:43 +0200
From: aep <aep@...s.org>
To: <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: make -i with linux-pam

On Tue, 15 May 2012 23:24:49 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:

> If someone wants to present a good argument FOR supporting utmp/wtmp,

not at all, but i wonder if glibs util function could be combined with 
musl, for people who want to kill zombies once at a time rather then all 
at once.
I remember from a security workshop, that someone just ended up 
patching utmp _out_ of libc because it seemed unfeasible to fix all of 
the code from last century.
Libutil doesn't seem to provide much more then that. Sounds like a 
decent abstraction of "crap" once could reuse?

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