[Mlterm-dev-en] Re: sysv utmp patch

[Araki K. <ara...@us...>]

	Hi,

        Nadim Shaikli sent me a patch for supporting sysv-style utmp,
        which I've already merged to CVS repository.
        But he still has a problem, so please test his work:)
	
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kiken
ara...@us...

Subject: sysv utmp patch
From: Nadim Shaikli <sh...@ya...>
Message-ID: <200...@we...>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:10:02 -0700 (PDT)

> I'm attaching a patch for the utmp code for sysv - I'm not sure if I did
> all the right things (so please check the validity of the code - I might
> be naive in the implementation, but as noted I wasn't able to find enough
> info about the subject, I tried searching multiple times).
>
> The code on a Sparc Sun works for both defines (utmp and utmpx) using the
> 'who' and/or 'w' calls - yet 'finger' doesn't work (why ??).  I tried to
> find info on how "finger" works, but wasn't able to find any detailed info
> and wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong in my write of the utmp(x)
> entries.