Re: [PATCH 3/6] utmpdump: use iso-8601 timestamp format with subsecond accuracy

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:40:34PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
> Newer 'struct utmp' is using 'struct timeval' to represent login and logout
> times, so include the maximum accuracy to textual utmp format.  Notice that
> this change does not remove support of converting earlier textual formats
> back to binary.  But conversions from binary to former format will no longer
> be available.

It would be also nice to document that utmpdump is able to read
textual utmp format generated by the current utmpdump version only and
that we don't maintain any backward compatibility for the textual
output.

The only binary version of the utmp is standardized.

    Karel

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