There is an effort under way to enhance glibc so that it can use the
Y2038 support in the kernel. The result will be that more 32-bit
architectures can use a 64-bit time_t. (Currently, it's x86-64 x32
only.)
Originally, the plan was to support both ABIs in glibc for building
new applications, si
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> glibc maintainers: unsure why screen works but not the example
> code given that screen isn’t sgid… maybe you should have a look
> at that, it still doesn’t work with the correct utmp permissions.
This might also be a bug in the example program; if so
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> reassign 932380 initscripts
Bug #932380 [screen] screen: Utmp slot not found -> not removed
Bug reassigned from package 'screen' to 'initscripts'.
No longer marked as found in versions screen/4.6.2-3.
Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bu
reassign 932380 initscripts
found 932380 2.95-1
notfound 932380 2.93-8
retitle 932380 initscripts: /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh: wrong /var/run/utmp
permissions
severity 932380 important
unblock 932380 by 932384
block 932384 by 932380
thanks
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> After hitting
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> utmp entries cannot be added (and the GNU screen source code contains
> curse^Wcomplaints about the GNU API for utmp lacking the ability to
> return success/error information, so the applications cannot even de‐
> tect this!), while the file is set up
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> block 932380 by 932384
Bug #932380 [screen] screen: Utmp slot not found -> not removed
932380 was not blocked by any bugs.
932380 was not blocking any bugs.
Added blocking bug(s) of 932380: 932384
> thanks
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.28-10
Severity: important
After hitting #932380 I looked at the source code of GNU screen,
saw it uses the getutline(3) function, and compiled the example
from its manpage.
The output is not what I expected:
tglase@tglase:~ $ ./a.out
before adding entry:
tglase :0
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