Re: the utmp.h header file

On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:04:39 -0300, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:

It seems FreeBSD has either evolved the system to use utmpx.h or perhaps
it never used the utmp.h header we perhaps find in GNU systems.  I've no
idea.

% git log /usr/src/include/utmpx.h | more

commit a627ac61ab8d660acfe6c88b01bdca8e8c1590aa
Author: Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 13 17:29:55 2010 +0000

    Implement <utmpx.h>.
...
    I'll bump __FreeBSD_version later this evening. I first
    want to convert everything to <utmpx.h> and get rid of
    <utmp.h>.

By the way, I'm not really interested in qbiff.  On the contrary, I'm
more interested in understanding FreeBSD with regard to this
compatibility question involving other systems.

It seems utmp.h was removed in the 9.0 timeframe.  It is present
in 8.4.

--
steve