who and w have always been different things. who is fine as it is and has nothing to do with w. We have the Hurd's w and uptime because they are better than other versions.
As to functions like fetch_boot_time, if they are useful to applications that aren't Hurd-specific, then they are useful to specify somewhere or other in an OS-independent fashion. That could be just gnulib, or perhaps glibc's libutil for this particular kind of thing. But it's only worthwhile if it's a single interface that many things will actually use. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
