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Re: sh-utils 1.16
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 12:36:02AM -0400, Allin Cottrell elucidated:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Dale Harris wrote:
>
> > So is anyone else having problems with GNU sh-utils 1.16
> > other than myself? With glibc 2.1.1 of course.
>
> What sort of problems? I just recompiled them against 2.1.1 --
> went OK except for having to comment out the "strstr"
> declaration in src/expr.c. On a quick inspection they seem to
> work OK too.
>
> Allin Cottrell.
The problem was with who, it was doing direct accesses to /var/run/utmp
which it should be (I finally read the documentation). Just doing a few
little hacks to who to make it use getutent() family of functions made
it work again for me. Course it sounds like they are coming out with
a new version, good.
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