Unfortunately I have to partially wreck its functionality, though. ftpd
used to keep a file descriptor to the wtmp, which allowed it to work
from within a chroot. The current utmpx implementation doesn't offer a
way to do this. Maybe we can address this in the future, if it turns out
to be a real issue.
write(2), and getipnodebyaddr(3) calls. Now all the above functions
accept "void *" in that arguments and have prototypes. Thus, the
casts are useless under the normal circumstances (and would be harmful
if the functions had no prototypes.)
MFC after: 2 weeks
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.