"Guido Leenders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It would be very nice if 'who' had an option to print all 32 characters of
> the username available in utmp.
As near as I can make out, 'who' is violating the POSIX specification
when it truncates the user name. Also, I notice that Solaris 8 'who'
does not truncate. I don't see any good reason for 'who' to truncate,
so here's a patch.
2004-06-19 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/who.c (print_line): Don't truncate user names at 8 bytes.
Problem reported by Guido Leenders in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-06/msg00056.html
* NEWS: document this.
Index: src/who.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/meyering/coreutils/cu/src/who.c,v
retrieving revision 1.94
diff -p -u -r1.94 who.c
--- src/who.c 13 Jun 2004 22:03:07 -0000 1.94
+++ src/who.c 19 Jun 2004 22:25:47 -0000
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ print_line (const char *user, const char
*x_exitstr = '\0';
err = asprintf (&buf,
- "%-8.8s"
+ "%-8s"
"%s"
" %-12s"
" %-12s"
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/meyering/coreutils/cu/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.216
diff -p -u -r1.216 NEWS
--- NEWS 17 Jun 2004 14:42:05 -0000 1.216
+++ NEWS 20 Jun 2004 04:23:36 -0000
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and the first argument is not "-n", echo now
outputs all option-like arguments instead of treating them as options.
+ who now prints user names in full instead of truncating them after 8 bytes.
+
** New features
For efficiency, `sort -m' no longer copies input to a temporary file
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