See his 4th paragraph for an explanation.
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From: Tim Schmielau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: acct upstream and debian
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Thanks for pointing me over there. I already went over the list some
> > months ago and concluded I covered the most important upstream parts of
> > it.
> Are there any bugs listed which are suspected to be fixed? I can
> email the submitters and have them check, possibly even build packages
> for them to test with.
I'll go over the list and check.
> > However I am happy to fix more problems if I am pointed to them (I
> > am not very familiar with GNU acct as I don't use it myself).
> :) How did you come to patch them?
:-)
Classic Andrew Morton strategy victim: someone posted a patch to the
linux-kernel mailing list so horrible I just couldn't resist doing a
better one. Then the GNU acct tools needed to be updated accordingly.
Since there was no (active) maintainer I needed to push it myself. :-/
> > Are there particular bugs I should look at?
> I was thinking of these, at least some of which I don't have the
> hardware/knowledge/resources to test:
>
> #291154: acct: dates in lastcomm's output are random in alpha
This should be fixed.
> #348991: I/O accounting does not work
This is due to the kernel not collecting that data. No way to fix it
within GNU acct (but it should just work if the kernel ever gets patched
to do this)
> > I will have to do look into GNU acct again as some problems with the
> > current prerelease were pointed out to me already. The "pacct file length
> > not a multiple of sizeof(struct acct)" was among them, together with a
> > suggested fix.
> Are you talking about something related to
>
> #3251: accounting file corruption
Yes.
> ? This is a 10 year old wishlist bug :) It is probably in the top 5
> oldest bugs .. althought it doesn't appear at
> http://master.debian.org/~ajt/oldbugs.html
> for reasons I don't understand.
>
> > > I successfully used your acct patch earlier this year (after figuring
> > > out "why doesn't the acct utilities work at all?!").
> >
> > Thank you for that, I am very happy about every tester as I don't use
> > these tools myself.
> Are there any recent/interesting/notable changes? My sources are
> dated Feb 2005.
Little. I did some more changes, small cleanups and stuff in Jan 2006,
but nothing really interesting. (you can check the Changelog file in
CVS on savannah: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/acct/?root=acct)
But I need to do at least one more prerelease (probably in a week or two)
with a couple more changes and would appreciate your testing.
I'll tell you the changes in that one once I know for myself...
Tim
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