18 Aug 2025 19:04:29 Andrew Bower <andrew@???>:

> I'm not sure when exactly this happened but glibc seems to have changed
> the definition of struct utmp to have an unsigned seconds field. This
> means that the whole OS could have been made 2160-safe instead of
> scrapping all the existing methods. There's a case to be made that the
> new methods should have been trialled in parallel with keeping the old
> methods in place and making sure software worked properly with the new
> unsigned seconds field.

This is very clear. Thank you. I wasn't expecting such a detailed response. Sorry you had so much to deal with perhaps pointlessly. I wonder why sqlite vs text when I expect text will be much easier to recover parts of from disk if deleted. I doubt the speed of sqlite will be needed. This upheaval without due diligence seemingly keeps repeating itself.

Regards,
                 Kc