Mats Erik Andersson <mats.anders...@gisladisker.se> writes: > måndag den 10 september 2012 klockan 09:36 skrev Simon Josefsson detta: >> Mats Erik Andersson <mats.anders...@gisladisker.se> writes: >> >> > Dear all, >> > >> > I have taken the liberty to update talkd with ACL capacity, >> > building on ground work lying in fallow since years back. >> >> Btw, regarding talk(d), are you able to get it to work? I recall >> setting up InetUtils talk a few years ago but there were some terminal >> issue getting it to work. Perhaps this has been resolved, but some >> positive confirmation that talk(d) is now in working stage would be good. > > Yes, after the latest portability fix in 43b1d3 (our source) and > commit 8a8ef5 in Gnulib, I am successfully using Debian testing > at one end and FreeBSD 8.2 at the other end. Both patches are > needed to get the executables to work on FreeBSD. The readutmp > module of Gnulib has never been functional in either of FreeBSD > and OpenBSD, but now it is, except that FreeBSD 9.0 introduced > their own interpretation of utmpx, so the module is still broken > from 9.0 and onwards, but for an unrelated reason.
Thanks! Having this confirmation that it works now is useful. /Simon
