Paul Eggert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > > The who program really can't do anything more than this. This also > > applies to the other utmp programs such as finger and w. > > But the interesting thing is that finger and w do do more than this; > the omit the dangling entry somehow.
Hmm... Interesting. I often use w but only rarely use finger. I can't say I remember for sure I am pretty sure I have seen dangling ptys from w too. I will keep an eye open for them. > > If you log in again and again and walk up through the devices an entry > > that you have logged into that tty or pty device will be made and will > > then clean out the old entry. > > That doesn't always work for me. It would be useful to have a utmp scrubber that could fsck-like check the file for integrity and fix it when it has errors. Of course what we really need is a better interface entirely. But I can't think of one at the moment. It is not a kernel thing so a /proc interface does not seem appropriate. And all of my other thoughts lead back to a utmp file. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
