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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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