On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 06:33:10PM -0500, Aleks Bromfield wrote:
Thanks for looking into this!
I forgot the original question. :-) The reason the output is different is that without arguments "who" will ignore any utmp entry for which the recorded process id doesn't exist, while it does not do that if you specify a file. (This makes sense if you imagine that the use for specifying a file is to look at archived files.) The point of that is to try to suppress odd entries in cases like yours; in the expected case there should be no difference. (Because dead processes would be marked as DEAD; that's another problem with your file--some process isn't updating the file on exit, so some of the duplicated lines assert that multiple PIDs are active on the same pty.)
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