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Re: who and utmp


On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 07:18:34AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger elucidated:
> That would be a problem with xterm/login etc not calling the correct
> cleanup functions.

Ok. Course it is interesting that 'w' is smarter than 'who'.


> That's the result from calling getutent.  Read the glibc doku about utmpd.
> 

Well, that's the point, they don't use the getutent() functions.  They just
do fopen("/var/run/utmp", "r") or similar.  I read the doc, but wierder 
stuff is going on.  It would appear that it isn't necessary to use 
getutent().  Is there any chance utmpd somehow redirects an open on 
/var/run/utmp?  Cause it still looks like that is what is going on.

Dale

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