Re: On "write" command

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>]

On 31/01/2011 11:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The utmp file is in the old utmp format for backward compatibility.  The
> utx functions are available and return a ut_tv field, but it's just
> extracted from the utmp ut_time field at function call time.  The right
> thing to do for write is to have a autoconf test for the ut_tv field
> and not using it, if it's not available.

  Nah, I was mistaken.  It actually works fine as-is.  I was fooled by the way
old utmp entries get the first char of the username NULled out into thinking
it was getting bad data, but a quick login convinced me that write actually
works just fine and all the util-linux maintainer needs do is add the
configure option to enable building it.

  I still think that utmp_data macro is going to return
&utmp_data_buf[nutdbuf] at some point, though.  Shouldn't it be "if (utix >=
nutdbuf)"?

    cheers,
      DaveK



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