A patch for utmpx

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu May 13 18:52:00 GMT 1999


> 
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> 
> > I am not sure if my old email was sent out or not. Anyway, this patch
> > provides getutmp and getutmpx.
> 
> We could add this but the names should be different.  When I read
> get*ent I thought "reading from a file" and I'm sure others think the
> same.  It should rather be something liek utmp2utmpx or so.  Please
> come up with a good name and update the patch.
> 

getutmp and getutmpx are in Solaris 7. Kerberos V5 uses them. If you
have Solaris, you can do

# man getutmp

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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