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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/52] login: Add 64-bit time support to utmp/utmpx
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:18:42 +0200
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* Andreas Schwab:

> On Apr 27 2021, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
>> never expired, only overwritten if the lookup key is used again.
>
> wtmp entries are never overwritten, they are only appended.

So do you think that the wtmp interfaces are worth preserving?  That
would be updwtmp/updwtmx and logwtmp?

Thanks,
Florian