On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > David Coppa <dco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Seems fine to me so far (amd64 and macppc); >> >> >> > OK here - amd64. >> >> Ok for me too. > > CONFIGURE_ARGS = --enable-utmp > > From this I take it that rxvt is supposed to write entries to > utmp(5), visible with w(1). And as an xterm replacement it should. > > In reality, it doesn't write utmp entries. It can't. It would > need to be setgid utmp for this. The code seems to be there, so I > simply made it setgid utmp. Surprisingly, this causes urxvt to > fail completely: > > urxvt: protocol error while reading pty/tty fds from helper process, > aborting. > > I've looked a bit over the code and ktrace'd a run, but there is > no obvious reason for the error. I suspect there is a problem with > the IPC, probably the file descriptor passing.
I'll have a look, thanks for reporting this problem. Btw, '--enable-utmp' and '--enable-wtmp' were *not* in the original patch Levai sent to ports@. ciao, David
